Astrid Kaminski
Photography
In the context of my marine ontological research, photo series are created as a play between themes from art history and the resonance of the (marine) environment.
Series: Wadden Sea / In the Sea's Stomach
Still lifes from an/organic remains, 23 images
Exhibitions
SHEETISM – FOR(E)ST, 15.11.2024 – 15.1.2025,DOCKART, Berlin
SHEETISM is a derivative of „Bagism” which was a project by John Lennon and Yoko Ono as part of their peace campaigns in the late 1960s. By covering the body, a new form is created, but the sheet also develops its own scope for action – exploring a large spam of references between the eternity of ancient statues and the transient dreams and states of physical bodies. The series was first developed at the North Sea coast, south of the city of Dieppe and later on explored a forest in the Belgian Ardennes. The resulting images invite us to explore the relationship between the visible and the associative that the specific landscape setting evokes.
“Πέτρινη Αφήγηση”,
Nature Morte,
16.5.2025 – 30.5.2025,
Μορφωτικό & Κοινωνικό Σύλλογο, Milos, GR
ΠΕΤΡΙΝΗ ΑΦΗΓΗΣΗ (Stone Telling)
Oceans and humans have many things in common, one of which is that they shape their environment. The sea forms the edges – the coasts of islands and continents. Humans continue the work inland – or they deface it, even to the point of complete destruction. ΠΕΤΡΙΝΗ ΑΦΗΓΗΣΗ, Nature Morte experiments with rock formations at the shores of three seas: the Baltic Sea, the North Sea, and the Mediterranean. Through imitation, visual rhymes, and associations, a system of reference emerges between human and maritime aesthetics, between human and maritime (imaginative) power.
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Other Series:
Baltic Gardening (Correspondences with Jellyfish and Stones about still life and ancient Chinese paintings)
Bluets
Human Tales, Still Lifes
Mushrooms, (Contaminated) Wild Fruits, and Shell Casings
SHEETISM 1&2