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MARIE WENGLER
Solo exhibition in Illums Bolighus 20123th of May - 5th of August
fine art photography
Marie Wengler (born 1992)
Since a very young age I have worked with and have been interested in both arts
and photography. Over the years, it has become increasingly obvious to merge these
two disciplines together, and during the past years I have therefore increasingly ex-
plored and developed diverse artistic photographic expressions. Interesting about
photography as an artistic expression is, that you can capture a unique moment
through a camera, which may contain many varying moods and emotions. The frozen
and unique expression and mood in each image can be increased and subsequently
highlighted by using digital manipulation techniques, whereby the original photo-
graph gains a new expression and meaning.
Over the past few years my experimental approach to photography has resulted in
several different photographic series of widely varying themes and artistic focus
(visit www.mariewengler.com to see more images). The contrasting photographic
series that I have worked with indicate the development that my artistic expres-
sion has gone through so far - although it certainly and hopefully will continue to
evolve in the future. Through increased knowledge and inspiration from the works
of other and more established artists, I seek to further develop my personal experi-
ence of art and my artistic expression. I seek to transcend both my own and the
viewer’s boundaries when I create art. From previously being less aware of a recur-
ring theme and message in my pictures, I now spend months preparing each image
and the overall theme of a series of images before a photo-shoot. I therefore still
have lots of ideas to bring alive in the future and I really look forward to this process.
Dehumanization
Size: 70 x 100 cm
Edition 1/6
The photograpic print face is mounted to glossy acrylic and aluminium, which provides a rigid and flat surface.
Faceless/Anonymous Existence
Size: 70 x 100 cm
Edition 1/6
The photograpic print face is mounted to glossy acrylic and aluminium, which provides a rigid and flat surface.
After a couple of years with limited artistic possibilities due
to an increased focus on improving my educational skills, I’ve
finally resumed my passion for art and photography after
finishing high school in the summer of 2011. I have since
worked intensively to increase my skill and I will in future
continue to expand, challenge and develop my understand-
ing of both art and photography. However, I still have much
to learn, many new forms of artistic and photographic ex-
pressions to explore, many photographic and artistic image
series to create.
Disintegration Into Meaninglessness/Anonymity
Size: 50 x 130 cm
Edition 1/6
The photograpic print face is mounted to glossy acrylic and aluminium, which provides a rigid and flat surface.
Most of the images which are displayed in the exhibition ‘Generation Y?’
in Illums Bolighus are part of a series of portraits. Through the use of
different remedies the pictures are intended to emphasize feelings of
both fascination and disgust, of absurdity and identification. The im-
ages challenge the youthful innocence, they seek to reveal the inner
primitive human instincts - the personal dark side, usually suppressed
but still existing in each individual.
The portraits depict the late/post modern, anonymous and individu-
alized human existential issues in a society of threat, where techno-
logical change is increasingly affecting and changing human relation-
ships and interaction patterns. The fear/anxiety of alienation from
our own identity and body in a rapidly changing, complex, globalized
world is highlighted. A desire to not be insignificant and ignored as
individuals and to feel alive. The quest to avoid loneliness, isolation
and the feeling of life’s meaninglessness. The frustration at not being
able to live up to society’s demands and standards for perfection and
success if you make the wrong decisions in life. Subsequently, individ-
uals in some pictures screaming out this desperation.
From community-based requirements to human life, it is now individu-
alized requirements that have an impact on our own lives. We create
our own lives without strong regulation from family and community,
offering a new freedom for the individual but also leading to new re-
quirements and a personal responsibility no one but you yourself can
undertake. You are ultimately responsible for your own success and
failure.
Homo Duplex/Binary Being
Size: 50 x 70 cm
Edition 1/8
The photograpic print face is mounted to glossy acrylic and aluminium, which provides a rigid and flat surface.
Save Me From My Thoughts
Size: 87 x 120 cm
Edition 1/6
The photograpic print face is mounted to glossy acrylic and aluminium, which provides a rigid and flat surface.
I Am That I Am
Size: 50 x 100 cm
Edition 1/6
The photograpic print face is mounted to glossy acrylic and aluminium, which provides a rigid and flat surface.
The images seek to highlight society’s polarized boundaries - be-
tween normality and abnormality, between identity and dissimi-
larity, between tradition and de-traditionalization (this aspect is
emphasized by the difference between the photographic medium
as an artistic expression compared to traditional forms of art),
between genuine and fake (by using digital manipulation techniques
the distinction between real and unreal is reduced), between life
and death.
As regards this last existential problem - life vs. death - some of the
images in the exhibition may therefore also be viewed as a rebirth
or re-interpretation of the Vanitas genre where human frailty, van-
ity and fear of the inevitable mortality are thematized. These im-
ages focus on the duality in the perception of human mortality as
either redemptive or horrific for mankind in the space between
birth and death.
Memento mori is still an eternally valid concept describing the basic
conditions for human existence, but in spite of our knowledge
of the inevitable dead it is a constantly recurring and relevant
theme in art, as people never seem to be able to come to terms
with the end of life - accentuated by a late/post modern secu-
larized society where the scientific development and matter-
of-fact determination of the human bodily degeneration have
generated doubt about the old religious beliefs/traditions that
in the past could relieve the fear of death, still without provid-
ing new meaningful scientific evidence about human existence
after death for the individual to relate to today. A retention and
extension of youth has become more important than ever.
Face It
Size: 80 x 120 cm
Edition 1/6
The photograpic print face is mounted to glossy acrylic and aluminium, which provides a rigid and flat surface.
I’m All, I’m None
Size: 50 x 90
Edition 1/6
The photograpic print face is mounted to glossy acrylic and aluminium, which provides a rigid and flat surface.
Cybernetic
Size: 70 x 100
Edition 1/6
The photograpic print face is mounted to glossy acrylic and aluminium, which provides a rigid and flat surface.
Visit my website to see a larger selection of images
with the same theme:
www.mariewengler.com
Contact me personally:
mariewengler@gmail.com
Find me on:
Google+
All pictures mounted by Pernille Montage Lab+
Visit or contact Illums Bolighus in Copenhagen, Den-
mark, from the 3th of May - 5th of August 2012 to
see the images from this magasine in real or recieve
more information about purchacing images.