Sandra Setzkorn
Film Still, "Foreign Moon"
My interdisciplinary practice combines painting, photography, music, performance, object, video and reflects with a focus on gender, the role and nature of humans
and their representations.
I encode the conditions surrounding me in my visual language and thus create a new fictional world. My body is the ‘glue’, I use it as my most available object & subject, use masks, costumes, props.
With my work, I want to counteract various stereotypes - grotesque, humorous, tantalising... - and stimulate alternatives to entrenched images, rethinking and refeeling.
My focus is always on nature and the feminine; both have often been ascribed similar attributes and have long been exploited as resources. Here I am inspired by contemporary history, the places and people I focus on in my work.
The landscape has also become the focus of my work. In relation to my stay in the Arctic, I am interested in people and their abilities and limitations under the extreme conditions in the Arctic and also Antarctic, a rather hostile environment that is changing drastically due to climate change. The visual beauty of the landscape contrasts with the rather unfavourable habitat for humans.
My strengths lie in improvisation and the short-term adaptation of the real circumstances, spaces and conditions surrounding me in order to develop a fictional world.
My work has been focusing on the polar regions since 2022. Particulary, I have been investigating on the topic “What does home mean?“ researching this question in my film project “Arctic Women“ and the music video for Sam Tuesday “Foreign Moon“, exploring the barren, remote landscape of Svalbard.
www.sandrasetzkorn.de
Instagram: @sandrasetzkorn
*Curator's Note: "Foreign Moon," the music video mentioned above, is included for full viewing at the bottom of this page. Stills from the short film can also be viewed in the gallery exhibition.
and their representations.
I encode the conditions surrounding me in my visual language and thus create a new fictional world. My body is the ‘glue’, I use it as my most available object & subject, use masks, costumes, props.
With my work, I want to counteract various stereotypes - grotesque, humorous, tantalising... - and stimulate alternatives to entrenched images, rethinking and refeeling.
My focus is always on nature and the feminine; both have often been ascribed similar attributes and have long been exploited as resources. Here I am inspired by contemporary history, the places and people I focus on in my work.
The landscape has also become the focus of my work. In relation to my stay in the Arctic, I am interested in people and their abilities and limitations under the extreme conditions in the Arctic and also Antarctic, a rather hostile environment that is changing drastically due to climate change. The visual beauty of the landscape contrasts with the rather unfavourable habitat for humans.
My strengths lie in improvisation and the short-term adaptation of the real circumstances, spaces and conditions surrounding me in order to develop a fictional world.
My work has been focusing on the polar regions since 2022. Particulary, I have been investigating on the topic “What does home mean?“ researching this question in my film project “Arctic Women“ and the music video for Sam Tuesday “Foreign Moon“, exploring the barren, remote landscape of Svalbard.
www.sandrasetzkorn.de
Instagram: @sandrasetzkorn
*Curator's Note: "Foreign Moon," the music video mentioned above, is included for full viewing at the bottom of this page. Stills from the short film can also be viewed in the gallery exhibition.
Film still, "Foreign Moon"
Film still, "Foreign Moon"