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Invitation Open Studio Day
The current artists of the September residency program |
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Andrea Abalia, Spain Andrea Abalia´s work is based on pictures of disturbing scenes, mostly inspired by Romanticism, on fearful fairy tales, her own life and childhood, and the theories of the psyche such as the Freudian interpretation of dreams found in Surrealism. Through building collages and paintings, Andrea explores the expressiveness and psychological imagery of figuration (almost always girls) through constructing a theatrical scene. She contextualizes the figures in psychological places, involving the figures in magical, surreal, or uncanny atmospheres. Andrea looks to find contemporary ideas about the female figure that arise from deep emotions such as apprehension or fear. Andrea Abalia on the web |
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Maria José Ambrois Rodriguez, Uruguay The photographs, found in one specific context (street market), are taken out of it; giving them a completely new identity based on the existing object. They are re-signified in new units. The antique photographs act like a bridge; a bridge that prevents us from getting stuck in just one of the two worlds that coexist in this one, and that allows us to integrate them both, get the parts together, break the barriers. The photographs stand as representatives of the real world, the rational, material, the tangible, conscious world. They represent that part which is fixed in us, that stable center, those basic things that man can always return to and which demonstrate the fact that one is and exists. And by modifying them (paint, collage or embroidery are used as means to do it) the other world is introduced, that one which cannot be seen with the eye: the world of the unconscious, that internal world where an infinite number of fantastic dreams and mysterious thoughts can be found. Maria José Ambrois Rodriguez on the web |
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Candice Cranmer, Australia A practise concerned with exploring notions of futility, perception, subjectivity and femininity is extended in Berlin. An open studio situation provides a means to display the workings of such a practise in a new location, as a pseudo laboratory containing video and ephemeral installation. Candice Cranmer on the web |
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Norah Hernandez, Puerto Rico Life’s primal dichotomies such as birth/death, pain/joy, war/peace, have for many years unfolded as the main sources of inspiration in my art. Through a continuous process of inquiry, I combine different techniques and materials such as paint, clay, wax, and textiles among others, to reflect on their vast and mysterious meanings from ancient civilizations to today’s cultures. Norah Hernandez on the web |
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Sarah-Jane Lynagh, Ireland Sarah-Jane Lynagh on the web |
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Jessica Kirkpatrick, Scotland Jessica Kirkpatrick is an American artist currently pursuing her MFA in Painting at the Edinburgh College of Art in Scotland. Her painterly works deal with notions opposition, the historied landscape, and the act of seeing. Jessica Kirkpatrick on the web |
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James Robinson, New Zealand James Robinson on the web |
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Katie Webster, England " ..the moment the actor dresses up and speaks with his own tongue he is entering the fluctuating territory of manifestation and existence that he shares with the spectator"(Peter Brook,1968). This piece of video art explores where performance meets actuality; what we see, what we believe. |