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S.CATRIN
MAGNUSSON
STEVIE
REXROTH
ARTISTS’ STATEMENT
S. Catrin Magnusson
My work explores in-between areas of physical
and psychological landscapes that move
back and forth between inclusion and
exclusion, connection and disconnection,
the material and immaterial.
I am interested in the concepts of displacement
and impermanence and how they are represented
in geology, namely the boundaries of tectonic
plates where subduction, divergence, or grinding
occurs. The work focuses on the Mid-Atlantic
Ridge, a deep rift whose force pushes North
and South America apart from Europe and
Africa by an inch every year. The rift functions
as a metaphor for the increasing distance
and tension between countries and cultures,
and speaks as well to a personal narrative of
coexisting between two cultures, two ideologies,
and two landscapes.
Stevie Rexroth
This work continues an investigation of
the nature of subjecthood in photography
through the use of simple materials
and means.
I create small sculptural forms from white
drawing paper and photograph them against
a white background. The sculptural forms
have no direct referent in the world. They are
created purely from a sense of play—cutting,
moving, gluing shapes around. It is organic
and meditative. The outcome of this process
is a quiet, almost nonpresent image, white on
white, sitting somewhere between a two-and
three-dimensional experience. A photographic
image becomes a work on paper, a drawing, and
perhaps returns in a cycle to the early definition
of photography as drawing with light.
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