BIO

Corina’s creative journey as a visual artist, began in 2014, working with photography, drawing and paper.

Her work began with a curiousity & desire to get closer to people through portraiture. When she first started makinng portraits, the thought of photographing someone could keep her awake for nights. She was drawn to the encounter itself, to the possibility of getting closer to another person through the camera.

Over time, this search for closeness led her inwards. Through years of working with childhood trauma, her photographs became increasingly personal. She began photographing women close to her, as well as girls who seemed to echo parts of her own unregocnised childood. These portraits grew into a body of work that was sometimes dark, unsettling and surreal, exploring the fragile and often uncertain relationship between what we see, what we remember and what we believe to be true.

Gradually, her practice expanded beyond the photograph itself. Working with materials ranging from Baryta photographic paper to delicate thin Japanese Kozo & transparant papers, she began to alter, layer, draw, sew and combine images. Small pencil drawings and unexpected fragments found their way into the work, changing the meaning of the photographs and opening up new possibilities.

Today, her work continues to evolve. Flowers, nature and ordinary objects are beginning to appear alongside the faces and figures that have occupied her work for years. The images are not fixed in a single story. Their relationships shift as she moves them, revisits them and sees them differently.

The Box is an ongoing part of this process. A collection of photographs, drawings and fragments that can be taken out, rearranged and brought together again.

For Corina, making is a continuous process of looking, feeling and trying to understand. Sometimes things fall into place. For a moment they feel right.

So the question throughout her work is whether a photograph can ever be reality, when everything changes?