Juliana España Keller is an interdisciplinary artist who brings art and life together. She received a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Painting and Drawing (2000) and a Masters degree in Sculpture (2003), both from Concordia University in Montreal. She explores and experiments with all contemporary media. She has recently curated two exhibitions in Montreal this year at Galerie Articule and Galerie Art Mûr and her own work has been presented in many international venues; most recently at the Ice Box Project Space as part of the Live Arts Festival and Philly Fringe, Philadelphia, USA, Galeria Nina Menocal, Mexico City, Mexico and Muu Gallery in Helsinki Finland. She has an upcoming solo exhibition in October at Galerie Art Mûr in Montreal.
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My process deals with and of and about society, community and the individual and the sense of the fragmentary, ambiguous and the uncertain nature of living. I am interested in notions of representation and identity by exploring ideas that are constructed around a re-examination and reconsideration of traditional portraiture and masquerade. I construct bizarre intersections of reality and situation in which pop culture's interlocking clichés are amplified.
This particular image is from documentation of a performance in Park Mont-Royal last winter produced from research gathered from the internet that embodies an aspect of modern-day story telling and the impact of mass media in popular culture. I take up the camera as a tool in pursuit of a diverse range of artistic experiments that intersect with the realms of digit...