Untitled (paintjob) by Fall 2006 Hot Shot Mette Maersk

Mette Maersk
Currently residing in: Copenhagen, Denmark

Website: http://www.mettemaersk.dk/

Work Statement:
The present text delineates my practice in words, differentiating from the visually explored territories, where I usually try to sense before reflecting. I often use small work titles, though. Short Maxims, simultaneously condensing and generating the core of matter(s) to be explored. They introduce gaming dialectics, and are the touchstones I work with.

Conditions of exile and identity have become my grounding as photographic story-teller. On most projects, the steppingstone is my physical displacement into a carefully chosen field, combining a geographical drift with an emotional one. Thus creating a polyphonic whirl, including exact phenomena and randomness. The work can best be described as embedment of matter density.

The visual matter develops and frames. In those visions, various architectural spaces are investigated as metaphysical conglomerates or invasive motives, initializing oblique stances on place and gender.

The fieldwork is thus double tracked. One exiled path in alien territory, and the other, its opposite: whereabouts in the familiar provincial, the grounding of identity, where personal matter can be handled exotically.

One can newer fully grasp the implications of what we observe, but we can gradually approach a totality, subsequently. In the mean time, signatures have to be recorded and contours framed, as handles to grasp.

Bio:
female > born 1970 > 182 cm tall > nearsighted > long dark hair > grew up in the countryside north of Copenhagen in a big house with 3 fireplaces > got my first camera at christmas 1985 > studied at the Danish Design School > post grad studies at the Danish film school > exhibitions in Denmark, Italie and Finland <