The Gallery of Contemporary Textile Artists
Zane Berzina
Latvia
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Artist's Statement
I work on the intersection of art, design, craft, technology and science. The undefined but fertile space in-between these traditionally defined practices and cultures; the potential for synergies between these diverse disciplines is what fascinates me. This provides the general framework for my work - it inspires, informs and shapes both my research and my creative practice.
Within this context my practice reflects on and utilises the current developments in material science and technologies. It considers their possible applications within design and art contexts to create and define new experiences, sensory environments and interactive artworks encouraging and exploring interactions between people, objects and spaces. It aims not only to comment about the developments in science and technologies but it also explores the possibilities the technology offers, giving visual, material and conceptual form to these changes. My research-led practice also attempts to question the strict boundaries between the notions of the ‘scientific’ and the ‘artistic’, and explores the concepts of ‘truth‘, ‘objectivity‘ and ‘subjectivity‘ within each of these cultures. By doing so my work contributes to cross-disciplinary activities in science, art and design and examines how such a cross-fertilisation of ideas, concepts and methods might influence the cultural environment.
Coming from a textile background and working preferably but not exclusively with fibres, cloth and various membrane structures, I amplify their strengths with all the means at my disposal, appealing to colours, textures, construction, large-scale screen-printing dimensions, sculptural forms, text, photographic images, smart materials and use of integrated microelectronics. In order to create new readings and meanings I combine traditional textile processes and materials with technically highly advanced industrial or high-tech materials and methods. I am interested in exploring ways in which (new) technologies can be used in poetic and imaginative ways. -
Artist's Statement
I work on the intersection of art, design, craft, technology and science. The undefined but fertile space in-between these traditionally defined practices and cultures; the potential for synergies between these diverse disciplines is what fascinates me. This provides the general framework for my work - it inspires, informs and shapes both my research and my creative practice.
Within this context my practice reflects on and utilises the current developments in material science and technologies. It considers their possible applications within design and art contexts to create and define new experiences, sensory environments and interactive artworks encouraging and exploring interactions between people, objects and spaces. It aims not only to comment about the developments in science and technologies but it also explores the possibilities the technology offers, giving visual, material and conceptual form to these changes. My research-led practice also attempts to question the strict boundaries between the notions of the ‘scientific’ and the ‘artistic’, and explores the concepts of ‘truth‘, ‘objectivity‘ and ‘subjectivity‘ within each of these cultures. By doing so my work contributes to cross-disciplinary activities in science, art and design and examines how such a cross-fertilisation of ideas, concepts and methods might influence the cultural environment.
Coming from a textile background and working preferably but not exclusively with fibres, cloth and various membrane structures, I amplify their strengths with all the means at my disposal, appealing to colours, textures, construction, large-scale screen-printing dimensions, sculptural forms, text, photographic images, smart materials and use of integrated microelectronics. In order to create new readings and meanings I combine traditional textile processes and materials with technically highly advanced industrial or high-tech materials and methods. I am interested in exploring ways in which (new) technologies can be used in poetic and imaginative ways. -
Artist's Statement
I work on the intersection of art, design, craft, technology and science. The undefined but fertile space in-between these traditionally defined practices and cultures; the potential for synergies between these diverse disciplines is what fascinates me. This provides the general framework for my work - it inspires, informs and shapes both my research and my creative practice.
Within this context my practice reflects on and utilises the current developments in material science and technologies. It considers their possible applications within design and art contexts to create and define new experiences, sensory environments and interactive artworks encouraging and exploring interactions between people, objects and spaces. It aims not only to comment about the developments in science and technologies but it also explores the possibilities the technology offers, giving visual, material and conceptual form to these changes. My research-led practice also attempts to question the strict boundaries between the notions of the ‘scientific’ and the ‘artistic’, and explores the concepts of ‘truth‘, ‘objectivity‘ and ‘subjectivity‘ within each of these cultures. By doing so my work contributes to cross-disciplinary activities in science, art and design and examines how such a cross-fertilisation of ideas, concepts and methods might influence the cultural environment.
Coming from a textile background and working preferably but not exclusively with fibres, cloth and various membrane structures, I amplify their strengths with all the means at my disposal, appealing to colours, textures, construction, large-scale screen-printing dimensions, sculptural forms, text, photographic images, smart materials and use of integrated microelectronics. In order to create new readings and meanings I combine traditional textile processes and materials with technically highly advanced industrial or high-tech materials and methods. I am interested in exploring ways in which (new) technologies can be used in poetic and imaginative ways. -
Artist's Statement
I work on the intersection of art, design, craft, technology and science. The undefined but fertile space in-between these traditionally defined practices and cultures; the potential for synergies between these diverse disciplines is what fascinates me. This provides the general framework for my work - it inspires, informs and shapes both my research and my creative practice.
Within this context my practice reflects on and utilises the current developments in material science and technologies. It considers their possible applications within design and art contexts to create and define new experiences, sensory environments and interactive artworks encouraging and exploring interactions between people, objects and spaces. It aims not only to comment about the developments in science and technologies but it also explores the possibilities the technology offers, giving visual, material and conceptual form to these changes. My research-led practice also attempts to question the strict boundaries between the notions of the ‘scientific’ and the ‘artistic’, and explores the concepts of ‘truth‘, ‘objectivity‘ and ‘subjectivity‘ within each of these cultures. By doing so my work contributes to cross-disciplinary activities in science, art and design and examines how such a cross-fertilisation of ideas, concepts and methods might influence the cultural environment.
Coming from a textile background and working preferably but not exclusively with fibres, cloth and various membrane structures, I amplify their strengths with all the means at my disposal, appealing to colours, textures, construction, large-scale screen-printing dimensions, sculptural forms, text, photographic images, smart materials and use of integrated microelectronics. In order to create new readings and meanings I combine traditional textile processes and materials with technically highly advanced industrial or high-tech materials and methods. I am interested in exploring ways in which (new) technologies can be used in poetic and imaginative ways. -
Artist's Statement
I work on the intersection of art, design, craft, technology and science. The undefined but fertile space in-between these traditionally defined practices and cultures; the potential for synergies between these diverse disciplines is what fascinates me. This provides the general framework for my work - it inspires, informs and shapes both my research and my creative practice.
Within this context my practice reflects on and utilises the current developments in material science and technologies. It considers their possible applications within design and art contexts to create and define new experiences, sensory environments and interactive artworks encouraging and exploring interactions between people, objects and spaces. It aims not only to comment about the developments in science and technologies but it also explores the possibilities the technology offers, giving visual, material and conceptual form to these changes. My research-led practice also attempts to question the strict boundaries between the notions of the ‘scientific’ and the ‘artistic’, and explores the concepts of ‘truth‘, ‘objectivity‘ and ‘subjectivity‘ within each of these cultures. By doing so my work contributes to cross-disciplinary activities in science, art and design and examines how such a cross-fertilisation of ideas, concepts and methods might influence the cultural environment.
Coming from a textile background and working preferably but not exclusively with fibres, cloth and various membrane structures, I amplify their strengths with all the means at my disposal, appealing to colours, textures, construction, large-scale screen-printing dimensions, sculptural forms, text, photographic images, smart materials and use of integrated microelectronics. In order to create new readings and meanings I combine traditional textile processes and materials with technically highly advanced industrial or high-tech materials and methods. I am interested in exploring ways in which (new) technologies can be used in poetic and imaginative ways. -
Artist's Statement
I work on the intersection of art, design, craft, technology and science. The undefined but fertile space in-between these traditionally defined practices and cultures; the potential for synergies between these diverse disciplines is what fascinates me. This provides the general framework for my work - it inspires, informs and shapes both my research and my creative practice.
Within this context my practice reflects on and utilises the current developments in material science and technologies. It considers their possible applications within design and art contexts to create and define new experiences, sensory environments and interactive artworks encouraging and exploring interactions between people, objects and spaces. It aims not only to comment about the developments in science and technologies but it also explores the possibilities the technology offers, giving visual, material and conceptual form to these changes. My research-led practice also attempts to question the strict boundaries between the notions of the ‘scientific’ and the ‘artistic’, and explores the concepts of ‘truth‘, ‘objectivity‘ and ‘subjectivity‘ within each of these cultures. By doing so my work contributes to cross-disciplinary activities in science, art and design and examines how such a cross-fertilisation of ideas, concepts and methods might influence the cultural environment.
Coming from a textile background and working preferably but not exclusively with fibres, cloth and various membrane structures, I amplify their strengths with all the means at my disposal, appealing to colours, textures, construction, large-scale screen-printing dimensions, sculptural forms, text, photographic images, smart materials and use of integrated microelectronics. In order to create new readings and meanings I combine traditional textile processes and materials with technically highly advanced industrial or high-tech materials and methods. I am interested in exploring ways in which (new) technologies can be used in poetic and imaginative ways.
Contact Details:
www.zaneberzina.com
