Photography
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One-eyed Reminiscence | Gunma JP
The work, which is purely analogue with no digital manipulation, is at the intersection of photography and painting. Being not simply portraits, the works draw on the cultural history of artistic gestures. In a cross-over process she alters the chemical layers of the negative slides, by scratching, bleaching and drawing mirror-inverted onto the crystalline structure.…
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Reminiscence | Gunma JP
Summer 2024 | After settling down in Onishi for a while, I started making portraits of some of the local people, who also became friends. Famous artists, priests and ordinary people who have caught my attention over the course of time.
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Finnish Encounter | Mänttä FI
Photo Shooting – Winter 2021 | Despite the pandemic lockdown in Europe I got the chance to visit Finland and pursue my project in a secure environment at Serlachius Residency in Mänttä one hour east of Tampere. Right after the opening of my exhibition in February I could start the black and white photo portraits…
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Pandemic Exile -Photography | Brig CH
Photo-shooting – Spring 2020 |A fresh insight into my most recent work from my Swiss exile. Reflecting on pandemic shelter. Working with the negative slides refreshes my memories of the summer in the Alps living in a Swiss castle. The poetic times are obvious gone, shelter and isolation is about to visit again. The analogue…
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Relentless | Tehran IRN
Winter 2020 | Working again on the analoge slides from Iran. It was a most alienating experience and as a matter of fact a very nice and warm one too. I was the last artist who got the chance to get a funded residency at the Austrian embassy in Tehran. After that it was closed…
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Regarding Hope | Shanghai CN
Winter 2019 | Swatch Peace Art Hotel | Finally I could work on the remaining negative slides. Remembering Shanghai at the Swatch Peace Art Hotel I also think of all these interesting artists from all over the world which I met. Han Feng, a gifted painter who has also designed a collection watch for Swatch…
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Zeigeist | Tallinn EE
Photo Shooting Winter 2019 | The Winter in Estonia was quite remarkable. My photographic work and exhibition worked out great. I was invited to a traditional wedding by one of my new friends where I danced for the first time in years. People were nice and warmhearted, maybe comes with the cold weather and the…
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Conceptual Garments | Onishi JP
Photo Shooting Summer 2019 | In Onishi I had the possibility to show the garments I made not only through an exhibition. Being blessed with such wonderful friends, who also can pose as such elegant models, I was able to present my garments in their best light. On the long shot this is the first…
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Portraits | Solothurn CH
Photo shooting Spring 2019 | Solothurn was my first long lasting residency in Europe and believe it or not my first actual stay in this country despite it is neighbouring my homeland. In generally we speak the same language but in detail we differ a lot. Due to my own dialect I was soon able…
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Orifices | Daegu KR
Photo Shooting Summer 2017 | The experience in Daegu was shared with some Korean artists and Adam, a very gifted visual artist from Ireland. Under all the circumstances which some times made it not always easy for me as a foreign woman in Korea, Adam was my rock I always could hold on. The portrait…
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Retirement Home | Daegu KR
Photo Shooting Summer 2017 | In the summer of 2017, for the first time I had the possibility to work in a retirement home with some elderly people. The setting was quite a challenge within a tight time schedule. In my memory I think they all had quite a good time giving them a kind…
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Portraits | Shanghai CN
Photo Shooting Spring 2017 | A brief sample of the analogue photographic portraits I could realize in Shanghai. The many other artist who also had a guest residency were on hand to model for me.