Plastic Fantastic #10

Photogram on Fujicolor Crystal Archive Paper, mounted on acid free kapa, white birch frame

A photogram is developed chemical rather than digital, where objects are shone though in a darkroom to create a photo without a negative. Vaka installs a collection of plastic straws on top of the photo paper in the dark room, waiting for the result to materialize. The photograms are both clinical and uncanny, yet hyper-aestheticized. The title of the works, Plastic Fantastic, reminds us of this duality.

42 x 30 cm
Unique
NOK 12,500.00
+ 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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