Aug 12

Aug 12 Weekend Portfolio: Greta Lorimer

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“Inner circle” The artist’s mother’s image projected and the artist interacting with the projection portraying a inner sense of belonging and research.   Dimensions 420x594mm

“I was the one who chose you” A triptych of the artist’s mother’s hands projected on a sheet of plastic and the artist interacting with the image.  The image aims to evoke the primeval moment of an imaginary state before the fetal conception.

“Primeval notes” The artist’s mother’s image projected and the artist interacting with it shortening the distance through a sheet of plastic. A dance of reconnection echoing the reciprocity between mother and daughter.  Dimensions 420x594mm

“Right before us” The artist’s mother’s body projected on a sheet of plastic and the artist interacting with the image resonating the primeval bond before the birth. Dimensions 420x594mm

“Once I was here” The artist’s mother’s image projected on plastic and the artist interacting with it looking for a maternal shelter. Dimensions 420x594mm

“I am the one who will choose you”  The artist’s mother’s image projected and the artist interacting with it through a sheet of plastic. A story of a lifelong reciprocal support and care. Dimensions 420x594mm

I Was The One Who Chose You

The distance causes the absence; the absence turns the imagination on; the imagination creates images of a presence.

“I was the one who chose you” it’s a project I’ve worked on with my mother.

We explored the relationship between mother and daughter, deeply bonded by a primeval, physical yet immaterial sense of belonging.

At the same time, the project reflects on a broader sense of distance and on what this might mean within personal or intimate relationships. “I was the one who chose you” explores distance – which nowadays has become an essential part of what we call home – not only as a physical state but also as a concept: through materiality and immateriality I aim to give a visual shape to an invisible link that connects human beings in time and space, conceiving the primeval bonds of birth and growth as ultimate and essential threads.

Nowadays it’s possible to reduce the distance through technology and virtual communication, as well as through our feelings. So, through the investigation of different kinds of technology, this project brings together the introspection and the intimacy of self-portraits that we took separately: she used a tablet in Switzerland sending me the pictures that I projected in my home in UK; here I interacted with them in front of my camera.

Greta Lorimer

“My research follows a project-based practice that sees photography and philosophy deeply intertwined, both rooted in a deep interest in the human understanding of life, in a love for the knowledge of ourselves, of who and what comes across our way.

I’m mostly drawn to the body, the portrait and the self portrait using the image as an introspective, performative, social and therapeutic tool to explore the narratives that occur on the threshold between the human inner world and the outside world, in order to widen the horizon to other realities with a different awareness.

The Greek intended representation as metaphor, as allegorical image, as displaying of something that refers to something else or hidden. In my practice I often adopt metaphoric performances, the surreal and the oneiric to tell and visualize untold thoughts, feelings, states of mind and unseen stories.”

To view more of her work, visit here.