I am a designer who creates movement. I use the art of Stop Motion animation to create my artworks. Its great appeal for me is that it incorporates a range of disciplines that I love. They include painting, sculpting, photography, filmmaking, storytelling, character development, set and props building, working with light and space, sound composition, and digital edition. I make frame-by-frame animations by gradually moving a fixed object by hand in a spatial, physical environment. Some of the materials I use in my films consist of acrylic/oil paint, clay, paper cut-outs, charcoal, pencil drawings, sand, puppets, or any object whose shape I find rather curious. Likewise, I prefer to use commonly found objects and combine them with diverse materials and techniques to create interesting metamorphoses. Recently I finished my bachelor program at the University of Arts Bremen.
For my bachelor project “IN-BETWEEN FRAMES” I created my first art light installation where I projected two kaleidoscopes and a series of conceptual video compositions. The Kaleidoscopes were made of abstract stop motion short films. I approached non-linear and non-objective experimental animation to create a purer form of film language. The variety of lines, shapes, and colours present in both stop motion films, where the reflection on my intuitive response and relationship with the materials; how I may elongate their limitations, play within a set of self-imposed parameters, focus on a particular quality in their movements, or reshape them to bring a new perspective through digital edition. The video projections were against each other on five-meters high walls. Moreover, I used external elements like plexiglass on wood frames and a smoke machine to reflect the light of the projector in other parts of the gallery bringing out the light and colours to other parts of the gallery. In addition, there was live music performance and electro-acoustic composition.
The second part of the project consisted of a series of conceptual video compositions. They were the result of film documentations of light refractions surfaces/objects moved by the naturally occurring motion of wind and water. First, I performed different experiments on the material I collected. In order to abstract them to their most fundamental forms, I altered them digitally until I reduced them to simple graphic elements to create a new composition. The results were objects that resemble microorganisms under the scope. All experiments allowed me to create interesting scopes mechanisms to transform and shape images—through mirrors and reflections—into geometrical and organic forms.
My goal is to produce special atmospheres and moods through colour, light, and movement not just on the screen but outside of it. Also, I bridge between the analogue and digital media through computer edition to experiment with unique compositions. I aspired to grow as an artist by exploring the fields of video projection and art light installations.
The horizons for animation in the international art context are vast and diverse and a new stage is opening where contemporary experimental animation is expanding into new media and territories, a hybrid and borderless artistic practice is evolving, and I would rather like to be part of it.
INDIVIDUAL EXHIBITIONS
- 2021 Bremen (DE) | Gallery DE HfK | Diploma Exhibition | IN-BETWEEN FRAMES
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
- 2021 Bremen (DE) | HOCHKANTFILMFEST: Open-Air Gallery in downtown Bremen | curated by Karin Demuth and in Collaboration with Filmfest Bremen
- 2021 Bremen (DE) – Mexico City (MX) | EINE BUNTE MISCHUNG: Street Art Exhibition at the Old Coca-Cola Factory Bremen | curated by Garabatos Atelier and Collaboration with discART – Kunst bis zum Ende
- 2020 Bremen (DE) – Tunis (TN) | DIGITAL SHIFT: Public Projection in Gröpelingen Bremen and Palais Kheireddine in Tunis | curated by Aymen Guarbi, Bettina Pelz in Tunis and Lorenz Potthast in Collaboration with Interference Tunis and Digital Impact Lab
- 2020 Bremen (DE) – Durban (ZA) | SUMMER SCHOOL – PAINTING, DRAWING AND THE DIGITAL IN PUBLIC SPACE: Public Projection in Bremen | Online Exchange and Collaboration with Durban University of Technology and Bremen University of the Arts
PUBLICATIONS
- 2020 Bremen (DE) | ENDLOSE HORIZONTE | 100 pieces | Handprinting Workshop HfK
- 2020 Bremen (DE) | EINE BUNTE MISCHUNG: INTERNATIONAL GRAPHIC PORTFOLIO | 50 pieces | Handprinting Workshop HfK
- 2020 Bremen (DE) | SUMMER SCHOOL: PAINTING, DRAWING AND THE DIGITAL IN PUBLIC SPACE | 100 copies | Handprinting Workshop HfK
- 2019 Bremen (DE) | DEADLINE | 100 copies | Ag Fresh Prints 2019 / Book Workshop HfK
- 2019 Bremen (DE) | CUT ZWEI | 50 copies | Handprinting Workshop HfK
EDUCATION
- 2022 Bremen (DE) | Bremen University of the Arts | Integrated Design BA
