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Monika Rechsteiner

Country(activity based):
Switzerland / Germany
Genre:
Visual Art

Profile

Born in St. Gallen, Switzerland. Lives and works as artist, filmmaker, photographer in Basel, Switzerland and in Berlin and Potsdam, Germany.
Studies: 1995-1999 Hochschule für Gestaltung und Kunst, Lucerne | 2004-07 Master of Arts „art in context" University of Art Berlin, Germany | 2004-07 Guest student at Media Arts (Experimentelle Mediengestaltung) University of Art Berlin. Grants: 2000 studio residency, Kulturzentrum Nairs, Scuol, Binz 39 | 2002 artist exchange programm, residency in Helsinki, iaab, Christoph Merian Stiftung | 2007 grant (Werkbeitrag) Ausserrhodische Kulturstiftung | 2008/09 Audiovisueller Wettbewerb Aargauer Kuratorium. Selected recent works: 2010 Trugschluss, video and sound Installation 2009 WIE VON SELBST (As If by Itself), 33 min., HD-Video, Film essay | 2009 61 MINUTEN 27 STATIONEN, 61 [+] min., Video for a circular rotating screen, co-production | 2007 TAWISUPLEBA documentary photo-essay, 38 min., Video.

About works / performance

"With photographs, films and installations I want to create awareness for the perception and foster sensitivity to issues such as the opposition between movement and stasis. It is often a kind of advanced photography, on the border of still image and moving image. It is a web of different things that inspires my work. Through various experiments and assembly technology spaces of experience are created."

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Comment

Landscape and the possibilities (with media) to (re) construct or represent areas play an essential role in the work. Still position and movement, depth and space, all the parameters of photography, film or video can be explored. The viewer is confronted with reality constructions that undermine the familiar patterns of perception and space-time views create a feeling of uncertainty and confusion. It is always an approach of research and exploration, indirectly calling the observer for participation and positioning.
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