artist statement

I am an interdisciplinary artist who brings art and life together and motivated by my everyday surroundings.
The scope of my subjects is diverse as I take up the camera as a tool in pursuit of a wide range of artistic experiments that intersect with the realms of photography, video, and performance.
My process deals with and of and about society, community and the individual and the sense of the fragmentary, ambiguous and the uncertain nature of living.
I am interested in notions of representation and identity as a set of characteristics that are recognized as belonging uniquely to an individual and how this communicates to bridge social communities.
Through the media of video and performance I am exploring the complexities of contemporary experience to question class, systems of power and circumstances that are used as justification for individual action.
I use the camera to frame these explorations critiquing the tradition of self-portraiture, the body, landscape and sometimes photography's relationship to painting. In undertaking an interdisciplinary approach to my conceptual process, I am combining new technologies with traditional practice. With this methodology, I develop work that is constructed around a re-examination and reconsideration of ideas of traditional portraiture and masquerade by examining the roles between artist, audience and artifact and the continuous impact of advertising and mass media.
Equally enamored with tattoo culture, new age and campy costume drama, I construct bizarre intersections of reality and situation in which pop culture's interlocking clichés are amplified and exploded.
I openly collect and reassemble our collective image-repertoire with intent to provoke contrasting feelings of discomfort and fascination, repulsion and seduction while touching on the sublime.

juliana españa keller