FINE ARTS
‘Steps of Walking Figures Through Brittle Earth’
Celina Vogensen (a.k.a celinda) is Nicaraguan, Portuguese, and American and works with topics regarding migration, nationality, territory, environment, layers and identity in which their (/his/her/zir) personal experience is the main source of their works.
Although these themes are constant, they are a multidisciplinary and an experimental artist, specially when it comes to working with different artistic forms and medium.
Please follow for more art at @celinda.art.attack.
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“The term equidistance in our research was born out of the feeling of belongingness. As a trio, in which each one of us shares a different background, we aim to share our different frequencies for this given period we are in. We would reclaim these collected moments through diverse mediums and express them in the exhibition. Three different artistic languages blow up and come together in a collaborative work united by the concept of equidistance – a point of equal distance.”
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I have built a game that challenges the idea of playing. Playing as an act, playing as an idea, playing as a state, playing and its associations to objects and/or material things, using different ‘play’ idioms and reflecting on the word ‘play’.
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Ciclo explores the concept of 'Mother Nature' and the associations of innocence given to nature. This artwork consists of a painting and two sculptural installations.
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'Collapsing Bridge' ia wood sculpture which was built and took place in Leeuwarden, Netherlands. I built the bridge and performed on top of it.
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I created wearable flags. Each flag is based on my nationalities and my cultural heritages. The flags are not exact representations of each flag, I have changed the symbols around so you aren’t able exactly pin point which nationality it is.
Collaborations
I created a Twister in which people could play with/step on different flags and countries from the European Union.
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Triptych with my three nationalities. An exploration on how nationalities are outlined by borders and bureacracy.
Collaborations
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Drawing in territories and creating a map to point out how countries and maps are defined in an arbitrary way. It also implies the idea of ‘finding’ territory, very much related to colonization and how colonizers would define ‘found’ territory. Colonizers would (and still) outline territories without considering indigineous people and lands.
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The 'No Name Town' consists of a large interactive installation in which the viewer can go through this. The No Name Town is built in a colourful and child-like manner. The installation hints to feelings of simultaneously belonging and not belonging in territories which I grew up in and I still currently dwell with. I’m also playing with symbols and elements on stereotypes regarding towns or cities.