Claudia Breitschmid*1983, Fotografiestudium an der Zürcher Hochschule der Künste und Masterstudium in Contemporary Arts Practice an der Hochschule der Künste Bern. Seit 2008 aktiv als Künstlerin und Fotografin. Mitbegründerin von jmcb – Kollektiv für visuelle Feldforschung.
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A Dialogue with a Big Body of Water

installation comprising seven elements with processed inkjet prints, scale 1:34, wooden framework, sandbags
different sizes ranging from 39.5 × 58.5 cm to 98 × 169 cm
2022
installation view, Aargauer Kunsthaus, Switzerland, 03.12.2022–02.01.2023

There are a few questions that have accompanied me throughout my time in Iceland: How does man affect the environment, and how does this now-changed habitat reflect back on him? Inspired by Astrida Neimanis’s posthuman phenomenology, I have been thinking about the human being as a body of water in dialogue with other bodies of water.

During a stroll on the beach, I found many pieces of glass. The shape of the broken pieces were reformed by the ocean. While translating these stones into photographs, I processed the surface of the pictures with wax and glue.

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