Black out screen

Archival print on Carson infinity etching rag 310g, mounted on aluminium, black oak frame

The photograph is of a black background on a computer screen covered in water droplets. The technique of photographing through a digital screen has been part of Vaka’s practice since 2008 and is a recognizable trait in her artistry. The water droplets on the screen work as a magnifying glass into the pixels of the black color, revealing the screen’s digital structure. Vaka is fascinated by everyday objects, and the screen itself being something that we see the world through, becomes both an object and a tool in her artistic process.

74.5 x 102 cm
Edition: 5
NOK 32,000.00
+ 5% art tax

Sandra Vaka (b. 1980, Stavanger) holds a degree from the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen (MFA), and the Academy of Fine Arts in Oslo (BA).

She works primarily with photography, sculpture and installation. Through a conceptual approach to photography, Vaka juxtaposes seemingly incompatible factors such as water and technology, the eternal and the perishable. In particular, she explores how human perception, body and identity evolve in a constantly changing reality and nature. Both humor and seriousness are combined when Vaka explores everyday things that we connect to our body, such as towels, straws and screens, with a nod to desire, consumption and pleasure that characterizes today's consumer society.

Vaka's work is included in a number of public collections, such as Stavanger Art Museum, KORO - Art in public space, Statens Kunstfond (DK) and NOCO - Nordic Contemporary Art Collection (SE). Vaka lives and works in Stavanger and Berlin.

Suck in, breathe out (solo), QB Gallery, Oslo, NO
2023
VÅRT SUG (solo), QB Gallery, Oslo, NO
2022
Days (solo), SOL Nexø, Bornholm, DK
2022
Still Thirsty (duo), Kösk, Oslo, NO
2022
2021
Swimming Pool - Troubled Waters (group), Kunstlerhaus Betanken, Berlin, DE
2021
Creation of a Moment (group), KaviarFactory, Henningsvær, NO
2019-2021
I skyene (group), Stavanger Kunstmuseum, Stavanger, NO
2020
Suge (solo), Kunsthall Stavanger, Stavanger, NO
2019
2019
Nightshades (group), Polansky Gallery, Brno, CZ
2019
last dance (group), KINDL, Berlin, DE
2018
Nudes (solo), NOPLACE, Oslo, NO
2017
Water Pusher (solo), Kunstnerforbundet, Oslo, NO
2017
Jugs (solo), MELK, Oslo, NO
2016
Glass Double (duo), Galleri CC, SE
2016
Screen Time (duo), Philadelphia Photo Arts Center, Philadelphia, US
2015
Sucking Skin (solo), Rogaland Kunstsenter, Stavanger, NO
2015
Through air (solo), Frankfurt am Main, Berlin, DE
2015

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