About
Marta Normington is a mixed media artist, documentary photographer and independent researcher.
She is a graduate of the Multimedia Communication Department at University of Arts in Poznan, Poland, and in 2016 was nominated for the 37th Maria Dokowicz Prize for best MFA Diploma of the Year. She has studied Documentary Photography at the University of Wales, Newport, UK, as well as cross-cultural Psychology (M.A./M.Sc.) and Tibetology in Warsaw, and spent a year living in a remote Buddhist monastery in Zangskar, in the Himalaya.
Marta currently lives and works between Munich (DE) and Poznan (PL). Occasionally she also resides in the Peak District (UK) and Mazowsze (PL). She spends much time travelling between places.
Statement:
"I am interested in the notion of a journey, both as a physical movement in space, and as a movement of thoughts: through time and places, through memories, disciplinary boundaries, human/non-human relationships; realities lived and those imagined. I see photographic image as a place for encounters between inner and outer states of being, between what is known and what is unknown; a crossing zone for the familiar and 'the Unheimlich'.
I create installations comprising of photography, objects, texts, video and drawings. In development of works I follow circulations of knowledge, things, narratives and information flows. In my artistic research I am interested in exploring the potential and limits of subjective documentary practice. I often take inspiration from fleeting and liminal phenomena, from crossing borders, from pilgrimages and wanderings, both: geo-physical, and across the wide and wild areas of human knowledge."
Contact:
marta.normington@gmail.com
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