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Invitation Open Studio Day
The current artists of the November residency program |
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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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Meghan Fulkerson, USA Brooklyn based printmaker/painter Meghan Fulkerson is looking to create an environment which represents her disorientation in a new city. She combines her figurative work with patterns that are a bit more psychedelic, to create an atmosphere of bubbling thoughts and inspirations that only a foreign land could bring about. She hopes to draw connections and glean new insights about the differences and similarities between New York and Berlin during the next months at the Takt Residency. Meghan Fulkerson on the web |
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Georgina Gratrix, South Africa Born in Mexico City (1982), Cape Town based artist Georgina Gratrix’s creative output includes drawing, printmaking and painting with a primary focus on portraiture. Her subject matter ranges from Hollywood ‘party-girls’ to re-mixing Old Masters. Drawing inspiration from both the sacrosanct icons of high art and vibrant popular culture, Gratrix uses portraiture to examine the cult of celebrity, aesthetic hierarchies within art history, and the role of painting within contemporary practice. Georgina Gratrix on the web |
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Scott Grow, USA My work attempts to interpret and explore the central issues of abstract painting and what abstract painting is and can be today. To rethink the boundaries of painting. Paintings that no longer want to be viewed as pictures. I am interested in the relationships of form, color, process and material, as they come to express concepts of presence and absence, intention and involvement. Through the arrangement of paintings and/or sculpture within a particular space, I wish to create an aesthetic experience in which people may take a moment to reflect on the purity of form and means, with in abstraction. Scott Grow on the web |
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Pearl Heneghan, Ireland When does body shed stop being us? Previously admired as part of the body, it is rejected as a fragment of self. A build up of excess body matter growing with time and movement and defining in form to create a new self separate to the body -The lonesome tumbleweed Pearl Heneghan on the web |
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Wai Kit Lam, Hongkong In the second month of her stay in Berlin, Wai Kit Lam continues to examine her identity in this foreign city through language. The new piece is based on a book that she found in a second-hand store. It was once belonged to someone called Alexander Simon and that he had highlighted some sentences in the book. Lam will reinterpret those German sentences by her own interpretation, in which she could not understand the language and the content. The understanding of the content is not important; it is rather a link of the relationship between the unknown Alexander Simon and Wai Kit Lam instead. Lam graduated with a BA (Hons) in Fine Art from Goldsmiths College, University of London, in 1996. In 2003, she received her MFA from The Chinese University of Hong Kong. Wai Kit Lam on the web |
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Susana Lopez Fernandez, Spain It is difficult to forget that day twenty years ago. Now I know that day was my birthday, I remember my mother crying at home, she was excited, I was not able to understand what was happening, I did not know anything about communism or cold war, I just remember I thought I had to study the capital of Germany again. Later they started to sell fragments of the wall... and so twenty years passed, like a tango, and last monday, 9th of november, again one day before my birthay, we celebrate the 20th anniversary of the wall fall. And maybe how Gardel sings "20 años no es nada" ...... and my aim with this project is to study the city of Berlin. I would like to talk through pictures about the integration between the East and the West following German reunification in 1990. I would like to talk about the integration of these two worlds, about what the consequences of the wall were and what the daily life in the city has been like in the last twenty years. The aim of my projects is to describe through pictures the remains of the eastern Berlin city. I would like to talk through pictures about the two cities I have in my mind: East and West. tango Susana Lopez Fernandez on the web |
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Christina Reginelli, USA Christina Reginelli is a Brooklyn, NY based artist. Her works are primarily mixed media on paper. She deals with atmospheric scapes that are reminiscent of symmetrical ink blots. Her works deal with concepts of projection and the relationship of psychology and art. Currently at the residency she has also been exploring digital media to express her interests. Christina Reginelli on the web |
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Shirley Wiebe, Canada Shirley Wiebe brings Berlin’s cityscape into play as she continues to explore connections between site, scale and symbolic form. Earlier this year, the artist made a trip to Ukraine, tracing the migration path of her family. At the site of her ancestral village on the banks of the Dnieper River she found only a relocated concrete staircase, its presence both practical and mysterious. For her initial project at TAKT, Shirley has created a small-scale paper replica of the Dnieper staircase. It will be transported in a small suitcase and variously placed in the urban landscape of Berlin to integrate with its surroundings. The artist seeks to bridge her personal experience with the city through this embodied interaction and its documentation. Shirley Wiebe on the web |