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Supernature

Kaarina-Sirkku

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PHotoESPAÑA
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I am fascinated by the human body, which is substantive and at the same time sensing, thus it is object and subject. I enjoy investigating this phenomenon from different angles and photographically explore ways of how people deal with their bodies. Currently I approach the issue of body modification in the context of Aesthetic Plastic Surgery. The body of work is still in progress.

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The Artist
Kaarina-Sirkku
Nominated in
2018
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PHotoESPAÑA
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Kaarina-Sirkku Kurz (Finnish/ German) is a German-Finnish photographer and visual artist currently based in Berlin. She studied in Bremen, Lahti and Helsinki where she graduated with a Master’s degree from the Department of Photography at Aalto University School of Arts. Her series Supernature, still in progress, presents in a very conceptual way her concern and fascination for the human body, something that she has already begun to work in her previous award-winning project UNGLEICHGEWICHT. The photobook of the same name won the Nordic Dummy Award in 2015 and was published by Kehrer Verlag. In 2017 the publication was honored with the Finnish Photobook of the Year Award, organized by the Association of Photographic Artists and The Finnish Museum of Photography. Photographer Alec Soth chose the winner. The coherence of her discourse and career, her way of getting into the subjects she photographs, with a very particular narrative, make Sirkku's work particularly interesting to us. In addition, being in a project which is in progress, we believe that Futures will give her opportunities and opinions to continue or find exhibition opportunities for it.
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