DESIGN NAME: Living Dolls
PRIMARY FUNCTION: Photography
INSPIRATION: Corinna Holthusen is a conceptual artist specialised in photography and digital imaging. She deals with the topic of convergence of beauty, disgust, artificiality, naturalness ...perfectly worked faces, bodies and its destruction through new composition by several parts of different physiognomies.
If in our capacity as viewers, we could delve into the places from where digital photography has emerged, we would be much more suspicious of the images by which we are surrounded.
UNIQUE PROPERTIES / PROJECT DESCRIPTION: Her large-scale representations of the body and face, in which the focus is mostly on the mouth and eyes, raise questions about perfection, death, and eternity. Fields of tension between fascination and shudder arise. In a first step, Holthusen photographs her models in the studio, but creates new, idealized photoprint portraits from scratch by digitally superimposing different physiognomies. Living Dolls is the study of combining humans with dolls.
OPERATION / FLOW / INTERACTION: Hanging at the wall
PROJECT DURATION AND LOCATION: The Project started in 2020 in Hamburg
FITS BEST INTO CATEGORY: Photography and Photo Manipulation Design
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PRODUCTION / REALIZATION TECHNOLOGY: Photograph in the Studio,
Digital manipulation with Photoshop,
Printing and mounting
SPECIFICATIONS / TECHNICAL PROPERTIES: 111 cm x 143 cm
Photoprint on Aludibond
TAGS: Dolls Photography, fine Art, Contemporary, white, modern Photoshop, Print, models
RESEARCH ABSTRACT: Research in the Book Stores, Comics and Internet
CHALLENGE: Upon completing her studies, Corinna Holthusen began specializing in the art of image processing. The themes of her works cover the convergence of beauty, disgust, artificiality and naturality. Using digital means, the artist shatters pictures of perfect faces and bodies to subsequently reassemble them through several physiognomies in order to haptically pry them open at the surface, ultimately also by means of material application, for example using acrylic paint. The persons depicted in her works never exist in this form. We believe to be seeing an everyday ideal of beauty, yet begin t question this given a different context.
ADDED DATE: 2022-11-16 11:50:46
TEAM MEMBERS (1) : Corinna Holthusen
IMAGE CREDITS: All Images Copyright by Corinna Holthusen
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