Maria Korporal: An Introduction to Her Work
Darko has recently introduced me to multimedia artist Maria Korporal.
Of Dutch origin, Maria lived in Italy for many years but she has lived and worked in Berlin since 2014.
Her artistic production includes video art, interactive projects, installations. Her multimedia work has been designed using a wide variety of techniques. The narrative aspect, both personal and social, plays a major role in her work which together with the directness of the images and the sounds leads to greater participation of the viewer. In her work she plays with virtuality and reality, with undergone and artificially generated experiences. Most of her projects deal with social and environmental issues, often with an ironic approach.
A good example is her project Korporal Zoo, a series of video works made between 2010 and 2018, which observe the animal and human world from several perspectives: cultural, social, environmental.
Over the last two years Maria experienced the world as extremely turbulent and this had a direct impact on her work as an artist. After many years of focusing almost exclusively on digital forms of expression she started working again with analog charcoal drawings during the lockdown in the form of animation sequences. Thus, in the intimate atmosphere of her studio, many charcoal and pastel animations were created.
At the same time she developed new technical and digital skills, working with 360° video and virtual reality. In her most recent video works, such as Pervitin Power, Short Stories and WANDEL, she uses a combination of these analog and digital techniques to elaborate on certain themes.
Pervitin Power - Trailer from Maria Korporal on Vimeo.
The threat of climate change has been on Maria's mind for some time but the war in Ukraine and the resulting crisis in the Western world have changed her thinking more radically in relation to digital development and our dependence on technology.
The core question of her multidisciplinary project QORPORAL QODES is:
How would we interpret digital signs if we were locked in a bunker without electricity and internet?
In this work, the artist tries to find solutions to this problem in an interplay of analogue and digital – from flipbooks to virtual reality video.
QORPORAL QODES from Maria Korporal on Vimeo.
Maria Korporal's website:
https://www.mariakorporal.com/
Please feel free to suggest changes to the above Maria,
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It is wonderful, Peter, thank you very much!
DeleteDear Maria and Peter, thank you both for this wonderful post on our blog.. Hope for more posts like this one in the near future... Checked email corespodence too... Peter, you are so pedantic, and Maria your works perfectly fits with the "Armchair Traveller" basic conception... All the best...
ReplyDeleteDear Darko, thank you so much to introduce me to Peter, I am happy and honored with this post on your awesome blog! All best to both of you
DeleteOf course we could call it "Pedant's Corner" Darko but FotAT will just have to do!
ReplyDeleteI would put a 'Laugh' emoji but this thing doesn't have emojis.
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DeleteI'm pleased that Blogger doesn't permit emojis David. In ensures that our readers have to think about what the writer has written, to use their imagination and wonder "Is this a serious comment or is it a joke?" As you know, that's how languages have been shared around in written form for the past 5,000 years. Wink Wink!
DeleteAside from all this pedantic guff David, I just want to put on the record that Maria's piece "Qorporal Qodes" gave me a real buzz. I love the way Maria has orchestrated all those elements including flick book animation in a closed cube VR environment, fusing her world with the world of Schrödinger and Escher. Over and out!
ReplyDeleteMany thanks, Peter, I much appreciate your interest in my work - it is a great honor!
DeleteYes, Maria is brilliant at that sort of thing. I always feel honored to have her work in my programs, to say nothing of having her curate mine.
ReplyDeleteDavid, thank you, how nice to meet you here! It is my honor and pleasure to have had your works in our program.
DeleteWonderful work !
ReplyDeleteThank you so much Alex!
DeleteThanks Alex, we tend to agree on many different works. I'm sure Maria will appreciate your comment!
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