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Katarina Boselli
A pluri disciplinary artist whose work includes photography, painting, video, digital composition, collage and graphic art.
Possessed by a kind of impatience, her thoughts and ideas, often divergent and contradictory, highlight the flow of passing days. She is driven to do all, see all, tell all and often begins her works with a fervor that gradually subsides as her work progresses. Showing a particular interest in human rights issues
in general and for feminism in particular, she can roam freely in her own private world of imaginary horizons.
As a child she easily got immersed into the worlds described in her children’s books: the pictures seemed to come alive before her eyes. In a similar way, rather than considering her photographic works as moments set in time, she aspires to photographically pass on stories which talk about those dear to her and about her memories, observations and hopes.
In no way does she purposely seek to create the melancholic strain which often emerge from her works. She is rather simply making a statement: to combat the darkness of the world, she prefers to turn
to absurdity and laughter, optimism and the desire to transmit positive vibrations. Inspired by urban
art, she explores the cracks in a gaze or in a wall, and photographs the different marks left by tags
or posters advertising different manifestations which are glued one on top of another or which have been torn by the elements. She then integrates these elements as nuances into her projects, thereby demonstrating the links that tie our past to our present, our confusions and contradictions – each beholder can identify in her representations a hint of his or her own life story.
Her works are mainly characterized by photographic composition which she creates by putting together a number of images in digital form or directly on canvas.
After her first works which were produced in limited editions of five prints, she realised that working on digital imagery alone left her unfulfilled.
Too impatient to commit herself to painting, she saw collage as the best technique to bring together her passion for photography and a burning desire to inject emotions and energy directly into the material, working with her hands.
She used this technique for her collection Arrêt sur image (Freeze-Frames) / Scenes from Films, a series she created using photographs from her television screen and starting conversations with moviegoers who having just seen a film were open to sharing and exchanging their views.
This being said, Katarina Boselli’s subjects and the creations they inspire – whether large or small, more intimate formats – are as prolific and varied as the world that surrounds us.
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