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Inter Alia's first exhibition Fabricate composed of three international artists whose work collectively explores the themes of narrative and fact through re-appropriation and manipulation. Fabricate, being the first time that the artists have exhibited together, their work is influenced by mediated imagery from sources as diverse as 'fashion' magazines, family albums and the World Wide Web. Through the various processes of remoulding and duplication of the subject matter new narratives are created, and in some cases, hidden truths revealed. It is our aim to explore these themes not only through the imagery depicted but also through the artistic process and the media that these artists employ.
Stenram’s work explores the re-interpretation of the fictional and the factual in photography; through manipulation she reworks the photographic image, creating a new record of truth. In the Fabricate exhibition Stenram’s triptych ‘Absent’ paradoxically restores truth through the use of digital manipulation to famous hoax images. In her latest series Drape, she initiates the viewer's curiosity and desire only to deflect and redirect that impulse to the background of the image.
Bonilla’s work explores a broad range of the vast narrative possibilities that found images can convey to the viewer. Her series Room to Let, fabricates traces of personal presence in rooms advertised for rent through the internet. Through digital manipulation, she ‘closes’ the room’s curtains, dislocating the connection with the outside world. Notions of privacy and interiority are emphasised. The audio/video piece In an Instant All will Vanish (collaboration with Matt Lewis), is an interminable short film, that, containing no reference to a beginning or end, implements the power of anticipation and narrative tension, drawing our attention the physiological and private interior world of the athlete.
Harasymowicz references imagery sourced from found photography, family memorabilia and her own photos, which she translates into drawings, silk screen prints or paintings. Repetition is a key component in her screenprints, resembling past techniques implemented by the 1950's Pop Art movement. Harasymowicz's photographic triptych exhibited in Fabricate divulges an intriguing yet strangely ominous narrative; a figment composed from the careful juxtaposing of initially unrelated images. Her work derives from the obscure and uncanny, re-working images and creating new works; a constant progression of art and exploration of communication, creating their own ongoing histories.
Cecilia Bonilla
Through the use of manual intervention and digital manipulation most of Bonilla's practice intends to question the nature of our relationship with the commercial image. Her work ranges from large performative installations to small-scale intimate collages, drawings and videos. She is particularly interested in the found image from glossy magazines using its essential contemporary quality as an indirect way of commenting on the present, a poetic way of observing the here and now.
Born in Uruguay and raised in Sweden, Bonilla studied Fine Art in Florida, USA leading to an MFA at Chelsea College of Art, London where she lives and works.
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Sława Harasymowicz
Originally from Krakow, Poland, where she studied philology and translation, Sława Harasymowicz graduated from the Royal College of Art in 2006 and is currently based in London. Frequently working with drawing and print repetitions, her ‘picture sets’ create simultaneously familiar and ambiguous links and narratives. Snapshots, family memorabilia and found imagery are a frequent starting point and first reference for her work.
A double winner at V&A Illustration Awards (for Penguin Books and Guardian Weekend Magazine work) and a jury member at the Awards in 2010, she is also a recipient of the Arts Foundation Fellowship, which she received from Sir Peter Blake in 2008. Sława is currently completing Wolf Man, a graphic novel based on the case of Sergei Pankejeff, one of Sigmund Freud's best known patients. The book will be published early 2012 by Self Made Hero in collaboration with Freud Estate.
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Eva Stenram
Stenram was born in Stockholm, Sweden and lives and works in London. Her recent projects have explored our contemporary relationship to technology, human habitation and the landscape. In addition to creating her own photographs, Stenram also often utilises and incorporates found imagery. Her subjects have included pornography, CCTV, travel photography, NASA images and the family album.
Stenram graduated from the Royal College of Art with an MA in Photography in 2003. She has won numerous awards including the Royal College of Art Graduate Award in 2007 and the Man Group Photography Prize, 2007 (First Prize).
Stenram presented her work in the symposium 'On Perfection' at the Whitechapel Gallery, London on 2nd February 2012. This was a two day symposium (also on 3 February) with international artists and writers discussing how concepts of perfection shape our personal identities and social and political systems. More Information
Artist's Website
Through the use of manual intervention and digital manipulation most of Bonilla's practice intends to question the nature of our relationship with the commercial image. Her work ranges from large performative installations to small-scale intimate collages, drawings and videos. She is particularly interested in the found image from glossy magazines using its essential contemporary quality as an indirect way of commenting on the present, a poetic way of observing the here and now.
Born in Uruguay and raised in Sweden, Bonilla studied Fine Art in Florida, USA leading to an MFA at Chelsea College of Art, London where she lives and works.
Artist's Website
Sława Harasymowicz
Originally from Krakow, Poland, where she studied philology and translation, Sława Harasymowicz graduated from the Royal College of Art in 2006 and is currently based in London. Frequently working with drawing and print repetitions, her ‘picture sets’ create simultaneously familiar and ambiguous links and narratives. Snapshots, family memorabilia and found imagery are a frequent starting point and first reference for her work.
A double winner at V&A Illustration Awards (for Penguin Books and Guardian Weekend Magazine work) and a jury member at the Awards in 2010, she is also a recipient of the Arts Foundation Fellowship, which she received from Sir Peter Blake in 2008. Sława is currently completing Wolf Man, a graphic novel based on the case of Sergei Pankejeff, one of Sigmund Freud's best known patients. The book will be published early 2012 by Self Made Hero in collaboration with Freud Estate.
Artist's Website
Eva Stenram
Stenram was born in Stockholm, Sweden and lives and works in London. Her recent projects have explored our contemporary relationship to technology, human habitation and the landscape. In addition to creating her own photographs, Stenram also often utilises and incorporates found imagery. Her subjects have included pornography, CCTV, travel photography, NASA images and the family album.
Stenram graduated from the Royal College of Art with an MA in Photography in 2003. She has won numerous awards including the Royal College of Art Graduate Award in 2007 and the Man Group Photography Prize, 2007 (First Prize).
Stenram presented her work in the symposium 'On Perfection' at the Whitechapel Gallery, London on 2nd February 2012. This was a two day symposium (also on 3 February) with international artists and writers discussing how concepts of perfection shape our personal identities and social and political systems. More Information
Artist's Website
