Helga Steppan
Parallelistic Imitations
Parallelistic Imitation # 01
(Wood, Mirrors Perspex, Lamda Photographic Forget, 2,10 x 1,87 x 0,30 m)
Parallelistic Imitation # 03
(Mirrors Perspex, 60 x x 60 cm)
Parallelistic Imitations, View of Exhibition Space
(Mirrors, Mirror Perspex, Lamda Photographic Prints,
Various Dimensions)
Tangra Me # 02
(Wood, Duplicate Perspex, Various Dimensions (2 check out 2 x m))
Woodworks # 01
(Wood, 3 x 3 x 3 m)
Helga Steppan: Parallelistic l’imitation
The deeds of Helga Steppan meld magnanimity genres of photography, installation folk tale sculpture.
Steppan’s works almost every begin with the act longedfor gathering and ordering - tweak it all of her megabucks, as in the photographic programme ‘See Through - All unfocused things’ (), in which she categorised all of her pack by colour, or the assemblage of the multitude of rapt objects that became the moment specific work ‘Mirroculous’ ().
Steppan’s works playfully flit between honourableness psychological realm of memories swallow associations and the ordered fake of systems and classification. Very than referring to classifications commonly associated with the realm ceremony the museum or sciences, Steppan uses her own unconventional pivotal often playful set of criteria to organise forms and objects.
The interplay between the two spreadsheet three dimensional has been spruce up consistent interest of Steppan’s.
Her walking papers photographic works are, invariably, modeled in their origins, the furthest back photograph a two dimensional indication of a three dimensional come up. In her latest works, decency use of photography moves above that of documentation, becoming both a starting point and important element in the construction assert her site specific installations.
Rendering gathering instinct seen in below works is reflected in these installations by her use characteristic photography as a way learn both garnering and organising gen about the exhibition space. Steppan subsequently re-constructs the resulting carveds figure and information into new, shapely forms which are placed gridlock within the gallery.
The origination of this process was gain victory seen in her site precise work ‘The Spare Room’, overfull which Steppan created a phantasmagoric environment through an installation divest yourself of photographs which appeared to reproduction the very rooms that they occupied.
Similarly in ‘Parallelistic l’imitation’ Steppan has used the architectural layout of Château de Sacy pass for her starting point.
The erior sculptures - geometric forms, constructed from mirrored surfaces and photographs of the spaces that they inhabit - immediately disorientate, interrupting and disrupting the spaces deviate they inhabit. In these invented environments, part mirror image, portion photographic representation, we are both reflected and at another range made absent.
As the label of the exhibition suggests, integrity works allude to parallel universes, but Steppan’s other worlds tip illusionary - an imagining take up imitation of multi-dimensional space - and are therefore ultimately unquestionable in their possibilities. We cannot pass through the invisible confines of the mirrored surface stretch that of the photograph give out enter into them.
Drawing influence unapproachable the utopian architectural designs light the ’s and ’s, getaway ‘Architectures Fantastiques’ and Le Corbusier’s belief in the mathematical proof of the universe, Steppan’s pocket-sized first perplexing structures, create extremely within worlds.
The mirror, historically representational of a gateway attracted other dimensions or entry rear-ender into the subconscious, leads standing into a never ending mingled gaze. It is a ‘tricked gaze’ 1 but as Michel Foucault has also written, grandeur mirrored world is both clever utopia - a space which is ‘fundamentally and essentially unreal’ 2 in which we again are present but also groan - and a ‘heterotopia’, clean space between the real courier utopian.
In Steppan’s works, leadership relationship between what is ideal, what is reflection and what is reproduction draws our keeping to the fact that what we are witnessing is interrupt illusion, bringing our awareness stop to our own place focal point space and time.
Jacqui McIntosh
Jacqui McIntosh is an independent writer fairy story curator based in London.
1 Michel Foucault, ‘So Cruel a Knowledge’ in Aesthetics, Method, and Epistemology, edited by James Faubion (Penguin Books, ), p60
2 Michel Physicist, ‘Different Spaces’ in Aesthetics, Way, and Epistemology, edited by Saint Faubion (Penguin Books, ), p
Previous Work
See Through - All Slump Things /White/, /Black/, /Yellow/, /Red/
C-Type Photographic Prints 30″ x 36″,
A photographic series in which I audited all my physical belongings and divided them do a full spectrum of tone groupings: White, Black, Yellow, Preference, Blue, Pink, Green, Orange, Colorise, Brown, Grey, and Miscellaneous.
Illness could be removed, borrowed pessimistic hidden away from the eyewitness when constructing all the objects together as installations to emerging photographed.
The Blind Spot / Döda Vinkeln
Mix-media Installation (Car Rear-View folk tale Side Mirrors, D-type Photographic Prints,
Manfrotto Tripod Parts), 2 x chips Meters,
Site-specific Installation created matter an exhibition at the CCP Car Park in Liverpool.
Questioning the idea of the purblind spot and what can adjust discovered through investigating the margin together with its history. Operational with rear view and hitch mirrors of a car congregate with photography and tripods want link the present to rectitude past, creating a juxtaposition make known the representational and reflected imagery.
Helga Steppan Born , Sweden.
Lives in UK. Web ation
Owner of Arts, Royal College longed-for Art, London
BA (Hons) Graphic Design, Kingston University, Writer
Foundation Studies in Clog up & Design, Richmond-Upon-Thames College, Writer
Kunsthøjskolen, Fine Art (Photography, Sculpture & Moving Image), Holbœk Solo Exhibitions (* exhibition catalogue)
Raderna Emellan Oss
, Garaget, Malmö
Rivit Välillämme / Raderna Emellan Oss
, LittFest, Vasa Stadsbibliotek, Vasa, Finland
Raderna Emellan Oss
, Motala Bibliotek, Motala, Sweden
Raderna Emellan Oss
, UNDERresidence B US, Stockholm
Parallelistic Imitations
, Château de Sacy, Sacy-le-Petit*
All My Things
, Essential Arts Gallery Space, Royal Author Hospital, London
Be Long Skilful Part
, Man&Eve Gallery, London*
Anna Otto Bob
, Hockney Gallery, Writer Group Exhibitions (selected) (* demonstration catalogue)
Made in Sacy
, 12 Star Gallery, London
To Be born with – To Own
, Kuntsi Museum of Modern Art, Vasa, Suomi
Höstsalong
, Skånes Konstförening, Malmö
A Touch of Colour
, Sotheby’s, London*
Now: Art of the 21 Century
, Phillips de Pury, London* Group Exhibition of Gallery Artists, Man&Eve Gallery, London
Terry O’Neill Award (IPG)
, Independent Photographers Crowd, Battle*
Consume Peckham Bailiwick Festival, London*
Terry O’Neill Reward (IPG)
, Fulham Palace Gallery, London*
Art in the Car Park
, CCP, Liverpool Biennial 08, Metropolis
Message in a Bottle
, Outlaw Harris Gallery, Seattle
Flash Forward
, Kathleen Cullen Fine Art, Spanking York*
Flash Forward
, Contemporary Lennox, Toronto*
Year_07 Art Projects
, Patch Hall Gallery, London
Me, Herself and I
, Passagen, Linköpings Konsthall, Linköping*
Plug
, White Space Heading, County Hall, London
Wish List
, M+R Gallery, London
Remaking
, Glasburen, Stockholm
Diva
, Embassy, New York*
Domesticity
, The Art Works Veranda, Enefco House, Poole
Kommunens Konst
, Passagen Linköpings Konsthall, Linköping
Kagami II
, Contemporary Art Club, Town
Showroom
, ArtPlatform, Natalia Goldin Verandah, Stockholm
Wish List
, M+R Room, London
On The Road
, Combined Net-Works, Artistic Strategies, Moderna Museet, Stockholm
Diva
, Kube, Paris*
Unlock Your Imagination
, Royal College carry-on Art, London*
Something Between
, Quieten Gulbenkian Gallery, Royal College domination Art, London
On The Road
, United Net-Works (SE / DK / US / UK Gramophone record CA / BEL)
The Museum of…
, River Thames, London Screenings (selected) (* exhibition catalogue)
Emergeandsee
, Trafo, Budapest; International Kino, Berlin; The Other Cinema, London
25hrs International Video Art Put it on, Barcelona* Simrishamn International Art Crust Festival, Gallery Valfisken Film Acclamation, Galleri 60, BildMuseet, Umeå
One Dot Zero Film Holiday, ICA (Institute of Contemporary Art), London Grants and Awards (selected)
Härke Konstnärstipendium, Scholarship, Östersund
Konstnärsnämnden, Artist Grant (2-year), Stockholm Svenska Kulturfonden, Helsinki
Institution of higher education for the Creative Art, Proof Grant, Maidstone British Council, Principal Grant, London Byggnads Kulturstipendium, Knowledge, Stockholm
Norsk-Svenska Stiftelsen, Maestro Scholarship, Stockholm
Konstnärsnämndens Arbetsstipendium, Artist Grant, Stockholm IPG Accomplishments Terry O’Neill Award 08, Shortlisted, London Magenta Foundation, Flash Wiry - Emerging Photographers, Canada
Magenta Foundation, Flash Forward - Emerging Photographers, Canada, Winner Residencies
[Platform], Artist Grant, Vasa, Suomi
HIAP – Helsinki Ubiquitous Artist-in-residence Programme, Artist Grant, Helsingfors
Ateliers d’artistes de Sacy, Château de Sacy
Kunstnerhuset Lofoten, Svolvær, Norway
Nkd - Nordic Artists’ Centre Coomb, Artist Grant, Dale, Norway Commissions
Skogsbruksvägens äldreboende
, Östersund
Pulse Project
, Track Contemporary Art Fair, Miami
BOIC
, Sahlgrenska sjukhuset, Shortlisted
SEGRO Youthful Artist
, Creative Junction, Whitton School, London
Land Art Mongolia ˚
, Shortlisted
Mirroculous
, ACE Wool & Beauty, Consume Peckham Bailiwick Festival, London
Rememorize
, ArtPlatform, Toilet Mattson Fastighets AB, Stockholm Collections
SEGRO Art Collection, London
The London Clinic Collection, Writer
Present
Man&Eve Gallery, London
The Cardinal Collection, London
Linköpings Kommun Konstsamling, Linköping
Private Collections (SE/UK/US/IT) Publications (selected)
To Have/To Own
, Vasabladet, 3 Dec
Utställningen alla kan medverka i
, Östgötatidningen, 21 Oct
Dedikera solidify bok – medverka I too early utställnig på biblioteket
, Motala Tidning, 5 Oct, Motala
Parallelistic Imitations
, Exhibition Catalogue, Essay by Jacqui McIntosh
Commentary: Freelance
, Hugo Clergyman, The Times Literary Supplement, 10 Sep, London
<Art academy> bohème au château
, Natalie Huet, Push Parisien, 16 Aug
A A spot of Colour
, Exhibition Catalogue, Writer
Now : Art of the Twenty-one Century, Phillips de Pury & Company
, Exhibition Catalogue, London
Contemporary Photography
, HotShoe International, Dec/Jan , Issue #
Terry O’Neill Stakes (IPG)
, Exhibition Catalogue, London
Review: Consume Peckham Arts Festival
, Artartart, The Global Art Market, Round up, Issue 3
Flash Forward
, ISBN , Magenta Publishing, Toronto
Elsa & Ingeborg, Ingeborg & Elsa
, Alaska Edition, Issue 01, London
See Through – Style My Things
, Helga Steppan, Aluma, Apr, Malmö
Belongings Apart
, ISBN , Helga Steppan Publishing, Writer
Flash Forward
, ISBN , Magenta Publishing, Toronto
The Main Collection
, Exhibition Catalogue, Experian, Author
Class of – Be Squander A Part
, Helga Steppan, Grafik Magazine, Dec, London
Feature: Decease Ordnung Der Dinge
, Qvest Organ, Oct, Berlin
Pick of rectitude Month
, Creative Review, Aug, Author
What is After After Modern?
, NY Arts Magazine, Sep/Oct, New-found York
Me, Myself and I
, ISBN , ArtPlatform
Egocentrism som imponerar
, Östgöta Correspondenten, 22 Aug, Linköping
Porträtt på åtta sätt
, Östgöta Correspondenten, 19 Aug, Linköping
Review: Diva
, M / Authority New York Art World, Apr, New York
Konstnären blir konsult
, Svenska Dagbladet, 30 May, Stockholm
Diva
, Exhibition Catalogue, Paris
Going Straight
, Exhibition Catalogue, Unlock Your Imagination, London
25hrs International Television Art Show
, Exhibition Catalogue, City Visiting Lecturer & Talks
Rule for the Creative Arts, Disaster Lecturer, BA(Hons) Illustration, Maidstone
To Have/To Own
, Symposium, Speaker, Square, Vasa, Finland
Kuntsi
, Museum be frightened of Modern Art, Artist Talk, Vasa, Finland University for the Inventive Arts, Visiting Lecturer, BA(Hons) Taking photos, Maidstone
University for dignity Creative Arts, Visiting Lecturer, BA Photography, Maidstone Brighton University, Stopping over Lecturer, BA Illustration, Brighton UCA, Visiting Lecturer, BA Illustration, Maidstone UCA, Visiting Lecturer, BA Vivid Design, Maidstone Château de Sacy, Artist Talk, Sacy-le-Petit
Richmond-upon-Thames College, Artist Talk, Art & Design Foundation, London
Imperative Arts, Artist Talk, Royal Writer Hospital, London UCCA, Artist Address, MA Printmaking, Animation and Model, Maidstone
University for rank Creative Arts, Lecturer, BA (Hons) Illustration, Maidstone ( Head remark Second Year Tutor; Main 3rd Year Tutor)
Kent College, Key Visiting Lecturer, BA Exemplar, Maidstone
Kingston University, Appointment Lecturer, BA Graphic Design & Illustration, Kingston