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Emma Bang
Emma Bang
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Vessel 01, 2019
Resin, Textile, Textile dye
20 cm x 25 cmVessel 01, 2019
Resin, Textile, Textile dye
20 cm x 25 cm -
vessel 02
resin, textile and textile dye
20x25vessel 02
resin, textile and textile dye
20x25
Major project:
A Body of Water
My works consider the notion that water can hold a memory. Water swirls through our bodies, as it flows through the River Thames. It slices the city in two, looming with secrets and guarding an archive of lost time and misplaced curiosities.
Ursula Le Guin suggested the first cultural invention was the container, not the weapon. A body can be seen as a container for water, as we each carry the sea, our origin, with us as our ancestors did before us. Once, we were living creatures embodied and bodied within the sea. Life gradually turned inwards, the sea where living creatures were at one time immersed is now enclosed within our bodies.
Through an investigation of the surface as a permeable barrier, underwater sound recordings, and the imprint, I aim to investigate the poetics of water, recalling early childhood experiences of being introduced to the underwater world by my parents who prior to my birth were divers.
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School
School of Arts & Humanities
Programme
MA Print
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Contact
- +44 (0)7598 279524
- [email protected]
- http://www.emmabang.dk
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I see my work as a way of being in contact with the world, my works revolves around a fascination for the affect of the touch and the imprint. I am exploring how to record and arrest a moment in the middle of a transformation and understand how changing circumstances can shape the appearance of an image.
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Previous degrees
- BA Visual Communication, The Danish School of Media and Journalism, Copenhagen, 2014
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Experiences
- Visiting tutor, Camberwell University of the Arts London, London, 2019; Visiting tutor, University for the Creative Arts -UCA Farnham, Farnham, 2019; Gallery assistant, Tintype Gallery, London, 2019; Artist's assistant, Artist Ferdinand Krag, Copenhagen, 2016
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Exhibitions
- 'Standing Water', RAW Labs, London, 2019; 'What a Relief', CPG Gallery, London, 2019; Surface Tension, Robert Burt Gallery, London, 2018; My Big Orchid, Safe House, London, 2018
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Awards
- Knud Højgaards Fond; Inge Mogensens Fond; Louis Hansen Fond; Oticon, Direktør Ib Henrikses Fond