justine blau
curriculum pdfI have a multi-disciplinary practice and often work with gathered photographic data found on the web and in publications, to create photographic montages, sculptures, installations and videos.
My work evolves around the landscape, though my main subject is us, human beings, as I am interested in the landscape as a mental construction and how this is translated into photographs, aerial views, maps, diagrams, words, etc. Through my pieces I like to explore the ideas behind nature, which are endowed with notions of archetype and origin, as well as foreign and exotic. What may we qualify as nurtured and what as natural? When does something stop from being perceived as natural? I manipulate images of the human body for the same reason, as it fully epitomizes this complex dichotomy
Both the Internet and the photographic lens have enabled us to see things, which were once unthinkable, giving life to this unusual external gaze. Strangely enough more we seem to see and comprehend, less earthbound do we seem to become.
justine blau
lives and works in luxembourg
www.justineblau.com
