Operating at the intersection of architecture, art and geography, Stefanie Herr‘s work addresses the way we relate and respond to the natural environment and is primarily focused towards exploring the contours of today’s dislocated consumer society.
The strategy of examining and depicting subjects in a topographical manner helps her to better understand the shape of a world that has become increasingly flat, synthetic and superficial, and also aims at peering at the landscape through a twenty-first century lens.
The traditional boundaries between photography and sculpture are being dissolved in her work. Photography abandones the two-dimensional plane and sets out to conquer the space. This hybridization of media enables her to create multi-layered, facetted images in which the fragility of our seemingly certain reality becomes palpable, fostering new ways to look at the world around us.
Shapes – whether borrowed from topographic maps, stock charts or any other graphical representation of data – are dissociated from their original context and acquire new meanings. Her photographic relief sculptures are generally made from cardboard and paper and are painstakingly cut and assembled by hand.
Stefanie Herr holds a degree in Architecture from TU Berlin. After working in architectural design and model making for several years, she decided to pursue a genuinely artistic career and began mainly experimenting on photographic relief sculptures in 2007.
Stefanie currently lives and works in Barcelona. Since 2009, her delicate handiwork has been shown in several group and solo exhibitions across Europe.
Images courtesy of Stefanie Herr
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