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The work of Pamela Rosenkranz deals with the redistribution of what constitutes the organic and the inorganic situations in which synthetic materials may resemble bodily substances, and the body may appear more mechanical. Related to her More Core series of photograms of pharmaceutical pills that resemble eyes, for Clearer, Rosenkranz has created a series of implied portraits by scanning opals, each scan uniquely reflecting and refracting the precious stones.

Her work was included in the 2012 SculptureCenter exhibition "A Disagreeable Object" and she will represent Switzerland at the 56th Venice Biennale in 2015.

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About Pamela Rosenkranz

In conversation with today’s Speculative Realist philosophers, conceptual artist Pamela Rosenkranz explores what it means to be human in what she calls a “human-indifferent universe.” Indirectly about the body, her sculptures, paintings, videos and works on paper usually avoid figuration in order to focus on its trace or its mediation through consumerism. For example, in Untouched by the Air of the 21. Century (My Colour Hurts) (2014) the artist used her hands to apply variously skin-toned pigments onto human-sized sheets of sportswear spandex, each a color which corresponds to the branding pallette of the water company FIJI. Although created by direct human contact, and in the colors of human skin, the gestural paintings do not express individual identity but treats trace as a symbolic value used for marketing to the health-conscious. Correspondingly, Rosenkranz is known for filling branded water bottles—Evian, FIJI, SmartWater—with skin and urine hued pigments in a way that reinserts the body into a water filtration process that companies would have us believe is untouched by human’s impure hands or even the air we breathe. Rosenkranz’s work questions the objectiveness of identity in a world dominated by rapidly changing scientific findings, technologies, and modes of consumption. According to the artist, “Scientific findings can change conceptions of what it means to be human, and that can be quite confrontational.”

Rosenkranz has had solo exhibitions at the Centre d’Art Contemporain Genève and Germany’s Kunstverein Braunschweig. Her work has been shown at the 5th Berlin Biennale, Manifesta 7 in Trentino and she is Switzerland’s representative for the 2015 Venice Biennale.

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Clearer

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Inkjet print on pearlescent paper, framed

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16.50 x 11.80 in

41.9 x 30.0 cm

Edition of 12

This work is signed and numbered on an archival label affixed to the back of each frame.

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About The Work

Her work was included in the 2012 SculptureCenter exhibition "A Disagreeable Object" and she will represent Switzerland at the 56th Venice Biennale in 2015.

Courtesy of SculptureCenter