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Marika Seidler is a
well-traveled Danish visual artist her video installations examines
relationships between people, and between animals and people in social
structures in an open artistic hybrid field between documentary and fiction,
where documentary material is transformed into a fictionalized ritualized
cinematic spatial reality.
The artwork of Seidler
displays group dynamics, body language, power, exchange, rituals and identity
in various cultures and realities. Each video installation is based on a
specific phenomenon related to cultural group mechanisms between people with
special abilities or interests. Seidler uses work methods from anthropology and
stresses a process-oriented research where groups or individuals are invited to
be part of the video art production with their own stories or mere presence.
The video works design derives from the participants experience, their unique
reality approach and cultural decoding.
Participants have recently
been silicone babies and their collectors in MOTHERS-OTHERS, a dynamic exchange
between the artificial and the human. Buisness leaders who learn leadership
from horses in WITH HORSES, Animal imitators and hog callers in HIGH on HOGS,
Animal communicators in ANi-HUMAN, whom create and develop their identity in
contact with animals or through personalization of animals. Mumbai men who
explore physical expressions in friendships TOUCH.
Seidler has traveled and
produced 15 video installations working in DENMARK, USA, INDIA, JAPAN, SYRIA,
LEBANON, RUSSIA AND BENIN, WEST AFRICA. She now lives in Copenhagen Denmark.
This autumn she will be showing MOTHERS-OTHERS on Danish National Television, a
commissioned work for the Danish National Television and The Danish Arts
Agency, and her Solo exhibition HUMAN - ANIMAL will take place at the acclaimed
Nikolaj Kunsthal in Copenhagen.
In 2005 Seidler was NOMINATED FOR THE DANISH GOLDMEDAL COMPETITION,
and was also granted a ONE-YEAR RESIDENCY IN LOS ANGELES by The Danish Art
Agency. Her projects have generously been supported by The Danish Art Agency,
DCCD Center for Cultural exchange with the Developed countries, as well as many
private funds. Seidler is a graduate from The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts
Copenhagen, Denmark (1994-2000).
M. Seidler has contributed to a wide range of EXHIBITIONS NATIONALLY
Viborg Kunsthal, Skovgaards ARTMUSEUM, Silkeborg Bad, Brandts Kunsthal,
Holstebro ARTMUSEUM, Randers ARTMUSEUM, AROS ARTMUSEUM, Nikolaj Kunsthal, The
National Gallery, INK Institute of contemporay Art.
And INTERNATIONALLY
Pori Artmuseum Finland, Momentum Nordic biannual Moss Norway, Dunkers Kunsthal
Helsingborg Sweeden, Kyrkamundir Art Museum Iceland, Art Genda Helsinki
Finland, Sparwasser Berlin Germany, Museé de l’árt Moderne Paris France,
Duchamps suitcase UK, Total Arts Dubai, Festival Ethiopien, International Foto
festival Syria ALeppo, International Women Art festival Syria