Kristina Aurora Simonsen
Photography
Valand Academy University of Gothenburg
Specialisms: Photography
Location: Aarhus, Denmark
Kristina Aurora Simonsen
First Name: Kristina Aurora
Last Name: Simonsen
Specialisms: Photography
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My Location: Aarhus, Denmark
University / College: Valand Academy University of Gothenburg
Course / Program Title: Photography
About
Kristina Aurora Simonsen (1995, Aarhus, DK) is a visual artist focused on art photography. Aurora mostly works on long-term projects,utilizing metaphors from the natural environment to construct speculative narratives that reveal non-linear entanglements between human and non-human life.
Giving up space and decentering the human in encounters with other organisms and entities, is a method for her to explore the mystical and emotional connection between the body and the natural world.
She is interested in various approaches to the photographic medium and combines it with other media,(e.g. text,moving image,sound and sculptural installations).
The project My Grief is a Line- Sometimes a Circle is an introspective search for healing, (self-)care and affection, reflecting cultural histories of grief and personal trauma in relation to hair. Aurora repeatedly works with her own and other peoples hair, which is clouded in modern interpretations of what hair represents. The original relationship with the material is both fixed and transformed with each repetition, becoming a ritualistic act of love.
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