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Last updated 22:06 Sat 15 Dec 2007

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SALTY MILK & EXISTENCE+

Inspired by everyday experiences and structures as well as vital emotions.
Interested in questioning the conception of „Reality“ (of things and states) and related terms - those things we might have become too used to.
Inspired by the Absurd, the Real, Maybes, Utopies. Opposites. Extremes. Reactions, Irritation. In-Betweens. Expectation. Limits. Language. Questions. Memories. Past. Present. Future. Curiosity and Passion.
Philosophy, Sociology, Psychology etc. - how do we live and perceive life, what about being & „becoming“ etc.
To sum it up: Life´s strangeness and intimacy and also anything in between.
Wanting to create visual poems that tell not only one story, visual examples in which people can find their own experiences.
Ambiguity. Something that oscillates between imagination, dreams and a conceivable „truth“.
Wanting you to laugh and to be unsettled.
Wanting to evoke emotions, create some esthetic (sometimes beautiful sometimes strange) but also something beyond that esthetic. What is it? Maybe there´s no word for it. Maybe that´s why there´s a picture for it.
Interested in capturing moments as well as in slightly staging or altering situations to create an own "reality".
Often the work is based on a certain concept but it's also spontaneous.
The work is curious, diverse, ambiguous, sensitive and rough, aspiring, emerging, driven and passionate. On the move.
Salty Milk and Existence.

Not wanting to limit anything.
Hoping the work is beyond those words anyway.

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CHRISCHA Maria OSWALD

+ Born 20-11-1984, Germany
+ Since 2005 University of Art & Design, Linz/A - Fine Art
+ Currently based in Linz/Austria

EXHIBITIONS

2008

+ DNA-Austria-Winners-Groupshow in Vienna - to come (24.01.08 - 03.02.08)

2007

+ Soloshow at "Exit Gallery" Claire de Rouen, London
+ "Catfish"-Groupshow, Rotating Gallery, Brooklyn, N.Y.
+ Dazeddigital "WANTED"-Groupshow (Barcelona)
+ F/Stop International Photography Festival Leipzig, "Trust me"-Groupshow

2006

+ Shoot Nations - Shore Things International Youth Day Project,
The Association of Photographers Gallery (London)

PUBLISHED in

PRINT

CATALOGUES

+ Catalogue, F/Stop 1st international Photography Festival Leipzig 2007
(published by Zentrum f. zeitgenoessische Fotografie Leipzig e.V.)

MAGAZINES

+ "The End Magazine" (Milan) - 07
+ "Pig Mag" (Italy) - 07
+ "Trzaskopismo" (Poland) - 07
+ "Landjaeger" (Austria) - 07
+ "Vision Magazine" (China) - to come

WEB

+ Nothing Fancy Volumes dot com Internet Mag (L.A.) - issue 7. 06
+ Group Show no. 13 (Humble Arts Foundation) - no. 13. march 07
+ Various Photographs 10, 13 & 19 tinyvices dot com
+ No Knock Room - Video-Feature
+ Our Art Site dot com
+ Now Now Gallery
+ Frattura Scomposta No. 14 (page 171) - Art Mag
+ The Peach Pit
+ Feature on Dazeddigital
+ Dresslab, LAB #31

Website: http://www.irritaction.com