Rebecca Hackemann is a contemporary artist whose pieces stretch the definition of fine art black and white photography as language and formally as flat image on the wall and in the gallery. Photography and sculpture are combined into “photo based” work, public art projects, 3-D projections or optical sculptures that humorously address contemporary political and societal issues as well as language and how it's meaning is constructed. Much of the work also puts into question and physical and ideological position of the viewer. The object based work most often consists of an installation of handwritten text on the walls as we well as hung white boxes, which the viewer peers into through 2 lensed peepholes. Inside these optical sculptures are stereoscopic black and white constructed photographs (silver gelatin prints)of a fictional world with text. By looking through the lenses the viewer sees the images in 3-D– thus the sculpture acts as both a stereo viewer and a conceptual container with it’s own inscriptions.

Her drawings and artist's books similarly use the two elements of text and image to evoke third associations and often humorous, larger meanings. For public art, please click on the menu above.

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Rebecca Hackemann is a contemporary British artist . more . . .