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. 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 that evoke an often humorous, larger
meaning. For public art, please click on the menu above.
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Rebecca
Hackemann is an emerging contemporary artist based in Brooklyn,
New York, London, England and Philadelphia. more
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