Statement
interdisciplinary artist and filmmaker, born in Germany 1975, lives in France.
BA Fine Arts and MA Critical Theory studied in London, Berlin and Kansas City.
She has worked professionally in the post-production and content industries and is currently a program manager for digital archives and editions.
Her practice encompasses both still and moving imagery and is often an exploration of the ontology of a subject using post-photographic techniques. Her work is usually founded in research questions and is focussed on archives, technical and media spaces as modes of production, as media while navigating the realms of the uncanny and the utopian.
More recently, her focus has shifted towards the exploration of cultural mechanisms, as exemplified in her latest project, the rough set . It aims to create a portrait of contemporary culture by collecting and analyzing cultural tendencies and elements. In the video Ai ga for example, protagonists from interviews, conversations and tutorial videos are re-cast by using animation tools explaining and questioning the impact of Artificial Intelligence and the history of computing. This interdisciplinary project seamlessly weaves together images, text, and film, engaging viewers in a multifaceted exploration of the intersection between technology and culture.
She is also interested in the expansion and renovation of artistic practice, currently articulated through the collaborative archive project Vollkommen Phantasielos about the german filmmaker and inventor Hellmuth Costard. The project centres around the production of a digital archive as a medium which includes interviews, texts, films and images to investigate the historic context and methods of Costard’s work often collaborating with people from other fields. The aim is to re-examine our own production and art production itself, to actively experience it and thereby give new impulses.
Selected exhibitions
Archive Player CAP Centre d'art, St Fons
Smoke and Mirrors Premio Pezza, Museo di Fotografia Contemporanea in Cinisello Balsamo, Milano, Italy (Winner)
Pursuit of Fiction Photofusion, London, England
Smoke and Mirrors ECB European Central Bank Photography prize (Runner up)
Festoon MACCO art fair, Mexico
Awards
European Central Bank Photography Award 2008 (Runner up)
XPS Student Prize for digital print
Publications
European Central Bank Photography Award 2008, Schaden, Cologne, Germany, 2008 (ISBN 978-92-899-0296-0)
Normalnull, Ausstellung Sichtungsraum, Sven Eggers and Sibylle Hofter, Edition Schwimmer, Berlin, 2007 (ISBN 978-3-00-022828-5)
Raw Art, exhibition catalogue curated by Michael Elion, raw-art.net, Paris, France, 2007