Description
OD Photo Prize 2024 | Shortlisted Artist
Selected by our International Jury from over 1200 submissions
Madeleine Brunnmeier (born 1995) is an artist based in Berlin. With a background in Visual Communication from the Berlin University of the Arts (2017-2023) and Musashino Art University Tokyo (2022), her work spans various mediums including photography, video, illustration, and installation. Her artistic practice is characterized by curiosity, keen attention to detail, and occasionally a subtle sense of humor. Exploring the nuanced relationships between individuals and their environment, both observationally and conceptually, she seamlessly navigates between fictional narratives and research-driven approaches.
Image Description | Willie portrayed in his home for Gestalten project, 2023
Artist Statement | “The work “Gestalten” displays photographs of temporary sculptures, composed of people and all their possessions of clothing. As an everyday companion, our second skin is as present as it is invisible. It is a means of communication, an expression of status, an archive, a shelter, and a habitat. So close to our bodies, clothing functions as a mirror of the interior and a boundary to the outside world. By extending the body through its own clothes, the garments come to the fore, but as a matter of material, as a part of the body and its history, as a manifold deputy of the person. A mass of identity, culture, and memory, an archive of a period of time. In the picture, this creates a very strong presence of the characters, although in some cases they are barely recognizable. On the one hand, the figures are very specifically personal, but they are also open to universal human interpretation – a collective study of the relationship of the body to clothing and clothing to the body. These textile sculptures which evolve, kind of imitate their wearer and transform them into an exaggerated version of themselves. The series is shot on medium-format film and consists of 15 images in total. The people represented are between 0-71 years of age.” — Madeleine Brunnmeier
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