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Irene Cruz 

Biography

 

Irene Cruz is Photographer and Video artist. She was born in Madrid 1987 and now lives and works in Berlin.  She studied Advertisement & Public Relations and also Audiovisual Comunication at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid. After this she did the International Masters at EFTI specializing in Conceptual Photography and Artistic Creation. She was highly influenced by Course on the Narrative effects of light.  Light is indeed a very important part of her work which makes her explore and experiment in the countries of Northern Europe. She has won several prizes, including an áccesit in Fototalentos (organized by the Banco Santander Foundation) and she has participated in more than 80 exhibitions, art fairs and festivals all over the world. International collections also count on her artwork.

 

 

Statement

 

My Artwork is about mystery, privacy, integration with the landscape … Making my work away from customization to represent universal emotions and feelings. Another distinguishing feature is the light, a light of sunset, a cold light …that's “my light”, I always feel very big attraction that light dim and intimate, subdued, serene, enveloping the stage. Rarely I show faces in my photos. Although I think the main key is what means the word “liminal” (referring to a position of an initial stage of a process, or be on both sides of a boundary or threshold). I mean, are between day and night, between the tranquility and restlessness. Is not a limit. It is a road, a bridge.

 

FIRST Habitat//Native Exhibition

       As winter ends, just before spring, Irene Cruz and Giovannina Sequieira will present their new show HABITAT/NATIVE for the first time. Over three weeks, they will transform Berlin's PPC gallery through photographs, video and performance. Poetically framing their experience of the landscape with a series of playful and sensitive works.

 

      They`ll lead us down woodland paths to share moments of tender connection and antagonism with environment. As we travel with these two artists they'll quietly reveal new layers in our perception of nature and remind us how intense our personal relationship is to the power of the planet. They aim to offer us a fresh and sensitive mix between conception and perception.

 

       Using paper, screen, and the human form they describe a world where the physicality and sensitivity of the human experience relates to nature. Where their own bodies become a media, and where their experimentation reflects experiential perception.

Through images and performance the artists invite us to enter the landscape though playful and beautiful work reveling in both the aesthetic and the personal. They crystallize an experience of nature and ask us to question whether this beauty is inherent or if our sensitivity makes it so.

 

 

PPC gallery is excited to present this beautiful, moving and thoughtful show.

 

Tania Gomes.

 

Two rooms, two hemispheres, two interactions :

the human's breath acting with the power of a calm but powerful Nature.

01/03/2013 - 22/03/2014

 


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