Ungleichewicht
Finlande
2018Artiste invité
Karina-Sirkku Kurz is fascinated by the human body, which is both substantive and sensing, thus it is object and subject. She enjoys investigating this phenomenon from different angles and photographically explores ways of how people deal with their bodies. Based upon narratives of people concerned, the work Ungleichgewitch (“Imbalance”) approaches traits of eating disorders. It offers an insight into a potential state of mind of people affected by them. In this ambivalent space, pain is intertwined in a strange way with the sense of existence, or is even causing pleasure.
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About the artist
Karina-Sirkku Kurz lives andworks in both Germanyand Finland. She graduated fromthe Aalto University – School of Arts, Design and Architecture in Helsinki, Finland, and developed the project of exploring the human body. Her series entitled Ungleichgewicht was recently displayed at the 2017 Athens Photography Festival, and nominated for several prizes, including the Voies Off in Arles. The work was published as a book by Kehrer-Verlag.