Antoinette Nausikaä
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About the artist
Antoinette Nausikaä (Rijksakademie 2010) is an Amsterdam based artist who focuses on the humane condition and the eternal and existential aspects of life. By using photography, video, drawing and sculpture she analyzes her surroundings and so aims to create different perspectives of the world and situations around her. Her works are often combined into spatial installations and books.
Nausikaä grew up in a family where all family members were aerial photographers. As a child she sat in the back of her parents’ plane, watching them shooting their photographs as they circled around their objects. They often flew for hours around one specific location, on different heights, zooming in and zooming out, approaching it from a variety of perspectives, without a fixed position. This way a kind of helicopter-perspective was formed. Her own way of working probably has its roots there in her youth.
Nausikaä's projects emerge from working periods around specific locations, often places where nature and city intertwine. Adopting them as her temporary home and studio she investigates our human relations to the environment taking her personal relations as a starting point.
Through a contemplative way of working Nausikaä aims to tap into different and deeper layers of seeing and experiencing, thus exposing what the current perception of accelerating time and shortened attention span altogether ignore. In addition she asks questions like: What am I seeing and experiencing? How do I relate to the world? How do specific locations effect me? Why are we drawn to certain places throughout history? What is eternal?
Since 2010 Nausikaä is using sacred mountains around the world as her working ground. In this she is examining the current expressiveness and timelessness of these places and esspecialy the interaction of the eternal character of the ancient mountains towards our ephemeral and fleeting life around it.
Nausikaä grew up in a family where all family members were aerial photographers. As a child she sat in the back of her parents’ plane, watching them shooting their photographs as they circled around their objects. They often flew for hours around one specific location, on different heights, zooming in and zooming out, approaching it from a variety of perspectives, without a fixed position. This way a kind of helicopter-perspective was formed. Her own way of working probably has its roots there in her youth.
Nausikaä's projects emerge from working periods around specific locations, often places where nature and city intertwine. Adopting them as her temporary home and studio she investigates our human relations to the environment taking her personal relations as a starting point.
Through a contemplative way of working Nausikaä aims to tap into different and deeper layers of seeing and experiencing, thus exposing what the current perception of accelerating time and shortened attention span altogether ignore. In addition she asks questions like: What am I seeing and experiencing? How do I relate to the world? How do specific locations effect me? Why are we drawn to certain places throughout history? What is eternal?
Since 2010 Nausikaä is using sacred mountains around the world as her working ground. In this she is examining the current expressiveness and timelessness of these places and esspecialy the interaction of the eternal character of the ancient mountains towards our ephemeral and fleeting life around it.
