EXPERIMENTAL SELF-PORTRAITURE
BODY, OBJECT & DOCUMENT with Alexandra Marina
9.5, 12-16, including coffee break
This workshop includes an artist talk where Alexandra Marina focuses on her work with self-portraiture, not only through photography, but also objects, documents and installation. We will discuss how to approach self-portraiture through artistic research, movement and different embodiment practices. We will also experiment and play with handheld scanners as a means of experimental photography.
Please bring your camera (any camera, including phone camera, will do), and one or more chosen objects or documents that you feel somehow could represent you. This is completely up for interpretation.
Price for Luovake members 25€ and 60€ for non-members. Enroll by emailing
[email protected] with headline EXPERIMENTAL SELF-PORTRAITURE WORKSHOP. Enrollment is binding. Limited places.
Alexandra Marina is a visual artist who has worked multi-artistically for over fifteen years. She has an intersectional feminist perspective in her art as a chronically ill, partially disabled, fat, queer, and Fenno-Swedish woman, who has also often lived below the poverty line. This is something she uses, studies and experiments with in her art where the focus often is on the body within different contexts; history, society, healthcare and interpersonal relationships.
She works conceptually and uses multiple mediums to create immersive exhibitions and projects that feel socially essential and powerful. In recent years, her focus has been on photography, video, dance, installations and text.
Alexandra Marina has a Bachelor’s Degree in Film and TV production (Novia, 2009) and Visual Arts (Novia, 2023). She has had several solo exhibitions, and participated in many group exhibitions. Right now, she mainly works with BODY HISTORY MUSEUM, which is exhibiting around Finland since 2023.
Her work is currently shown in Jyväskylä at Luovake’s Vitriini-galleria, as well as Taidetila Hoppa where her process exhibition BARRIER is on 5-17.5.
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