Magdalene Carmen merges dream with street grit, fineArt with industrial pop aesthetics, evocative with playful-provocative intent in dynamic, abstract-geometric works centred on two subjects: Urban & Woman (fashion / self-portraits). Mediums: digital photography, graphics, glitch effects, AI, English lingo, her body, vocals, poetry/music. Practices art activism via beyond-pretty work that is also social commentary. Key series: 1) Addict: semiotic, digital flag-collages (hybrid of MC's urban photography, fashion (self-) portraits & graphics) articulating the corporeal-spiritual, conscious-unconscious tug of war defining the human condition, besides being intimations of feminine power in necessary contrast with masculine dynamics 2) Dancer/Her: photographic and/or AI x glitch, representational #selfportraits toasting the feminine form as eternal romantic-erotic art figure 3) Give Me A Sign: English lingo x sign satires on #popculture 4) Urban Mesh: kinetic, abstract-architectural portraits of Melbourne (AU) from train windows, being this artist's creative travel advocacy supporting Global Goal No. 11: Sustainable Cities & Communities.
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One of just six contemporary artists for Australia’s inaugural digital billboard Art Prize exhibition (AU Summer 2020) adapted in 2022 for the Big Screen in Fed Square, Melbourne. Regular exhibitor, Melbourne Centre for Contemporary Photography. So far iRL exhibited in London, Melbourne, New York, Venice. Top-100 female digital-NFT artists, exhibited + collected @ makersplace.com. Featured + galleried artist, lensculture.com. Some IRL works in private collections. Also published poet, sometimes alt-pop musician, dancer. Studied: creative writingXjournalism, photographyXfashion design. Works more or less emote these influences / impacts: Banksy's art activism, Guy Bourdin's erotic couture in fashion portraits, PopArt's power, Apple's design minimalism. "The thing about art is: it kind of animates on its own. I simply begin with an idea, I play. And then some instinctual thing moves me one way or another. This is the most pleasurable, electric thing: when I don't know what will come but believe I'll get there and then I do. Or I don't (yet) and start again. I like the playing part very much, the adventuring into what-i-don't-know-exactly but only imagine, only feel; the experimenting + discovering, a kind of fever about what might be."
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