 | TALENA SANDERS | Nov 26, 2006 |
Talena Sanders is an interdisciplinary artist who uses a wide range of media including film photography, digital video, live digital video mixing, moving image film, installation, archival work, social practice work, performance, curatorial projects, and independent publications to explore the extraordinary ways humans express individual and collective identities. Her work investigates how we translate our interior lives and desires in communication with other people through visual cues. Talena utilizes the unassuming vocabulary of the automatic film camera to create intimate, candid examinations of individuals’ processes of self-discovery and outward expressions of lifestyle through their relationships with their professions, material possessions, immediate and mundane environments, and their choices in personal appearance. Often through collaborative process she documents the ways in which people rely on their visual expressions of identity to connect with one another and explore what it means to belong to a collective cultural identity. Through documenting experiences in international travel, Talena discovers how the expression of individualism relates to broader cultural and global influences, and how the wide availability of visual culture information through various new media outlets is affecting social norms of personal expression. She continues to be fascinated by the motivations behind those who choose to test societal norms through eccentric lifestyles and personal appearance, including documentation of her own personal experiences to investigate this phenomena.
Originally from Lexington, Kentucky, she now divides her time living and working at Elsewhere Collaborative in Greensboro, North Carolina and Brooklyn, New York.
Her work has been exhibited and collected internationally including the Chelsea Museum of Art in New York, NY, Aljira Center for Contemporary Art in Newark, NJ, Huntington Museum of Art in Huntington, WV, Above Second gallery in Hong Kong, International Forum Art Tech Media in Cordoba, Spain, International Streaming Festival in The Hague, The Netherlands, Contemporary Art Center in Naples, Italy, Musée de l'Elysée in Lausanne, Switzerland. Her work has been published in independent books and magazines throughout the American northeast.
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Originally from Lexington, Kentucky, she now divides her time living and working at Elsewhere Collaborative in Greensboro, North Carolina and Brooklyn, New York.
Her work has been exhibited and collected internationally including the Chelsea Museum of Art in New York, NY, Aljira Center for Contemporary Art in Newark, NJ, Huntington Museum of Art in Huntington, WV, Above Second gallery in Hong Kong, International Forum Art Tech Media in Cordoba, Spain, International Streaming Festival in The Hague, The Netherlands, Contemporary Art Center in Naples, Italy, Musée de l'Elysée in Lausanne, Switzerland. Her work has been published in independent books and magazines throughout the American northeast.
flickr for new photographs daily: www.flickr.com/photos/mirrorcure
MOTIVATIONAL VOICEMAILS
Know someone who needs words of encouragement, for any reason? Record a message for them to be posted online (will update with link to that site soon) Leave a voicemail at 347.280.3938.