Mary Magsamen + Stephan Hillerbrand  

artistic statement

We work collaboratively with video, photography and installation. Exploring ideas about relationships and perception, our daily interactions with each other influence our work the most. We are interested in taking everyday items such as coffee, bubblegum and cheese puffs and making them larger-than-life through abstraction and manipulation of time and space.


By re-contextualizing everyday items through abstraction and play, we hope to create a cinematic experience for the viewer. We want to show people the world differently not because of new tricks, tools or softwares, but because they are seeing something familiar in an unfamiliar way. It could be argued that the beauty of the Edward Weston’s bell pepper photograph was not that this “new” medium of photography was able to capture it, but that as an artist he showed that there was beauty and elegance in something as mundane as a bell pepper.


 

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