Gina Theron
Fine Art BA
Stellenbosch University
Graduates: 2023
Specialisms: Fine Art / Photography
My location: Stellenbosch, South Africa
Gina Theron
First Name: Gina
Last Name: Theron
University / College: Stellenbosch University
Course / Program: Fine Art BA
Graduates: 2023
Specialisms: Fine Art / Photography
My Location: Stellenbosch, South Africa
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About
I am currently completing a Bachelors in Visual Art in Fine Arts at Stellenbosch University, South Africa, as well as a higher certificate in Commercial Photography. I am influenced by everyday situations and relationships, and through my practice I use skills across multiple mediums in attempt to create personal and intuitive responses to my environment. Whether quick and spontaneous or pored over inquisitively, I am drawn to moments and memories that reveal the delicate, fleeting nature of our collective and personal experiences. I am currently exploring analog photography, experimenting with expired/old materials. I am interested in the human figure and incorporate certain interpretations thereof throughout my work, in both recognisable and abstracted ways.
The time-honoured photographic process allows for the recollection of a site with soft eyes. I currently approach film photography as a generative medium, allowing the process to dictate the outcome. With a curatorial approach I am able to create new narratives through remembering, re- imagining and rearranging. As my work reflects timeworn materials, such as expired film and photographic paper, it is thus coupled with memory and evokes a sense of nostalgia, whether real or imagined. By expanding my observations through video, audio and installation, a more interactive expression presents itself, which mimics the process of photography in a more dynamic way. I am compelled to reach the moment when images dance around one another, pulling taught the ties between them; to reach the moment when their density is hoisted up by the lightness of their fictive nature; and to celebrate the subtle intricacies of gesture.
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