Acclaimed for her contemporary and intimate depictions of the nude, Kuhn takes a new direction into abstraction in her latest series She Disappeared into Complete Silence. Photographed at a golden modernist structure on the edge of Joshua Tree National Park, architectural lines, light refl ections and a single figure have been carefully balanced against the backdrop ofthe Californian desert.

The human fi gure, Mona's friend and collaborator Jacintha, emerges like a surrealist mirage, frag...