BUCAN Vanja

Sequences of Truth and Deception

Slovénie

2018Godmother Artist

This series was based on the idea of camouflage in wildness. The project evolved towards a playful exploration of our connections with nature. Our attachment to nature is ambiguous as it implies domination, exploitation and idealisation. We like to think of ourselves as nature-lovers, but this love is conditioned, controlled and controlling. We keep transforming nature according to our needs, as we keep embellishing it according to our desires.

About the artist

Vanja Bucan was born in Slovenia in 1973. She lives and works in Berlin, Germany. She graduated from the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of The Hague, in the Netherlands, where she studied in the photography department. Through herwork, she mainly questionsthe relationship between man and nature. Vanja Bucan is the award winner of the 2015 Lens Culture Exposure Award andof the 2016 Renaissance Photography Prize.