Marguerite Harris

Afro-American Media Artist

01.08.2023  -  31.08.2023

A recurring SomoS Artist-in-Residence since 2016, Marguerite Harris’ multidisciplinary work incorporates elements of collage, analog film, video-art, light-modulation, installation, sculpture, and New Media.

In her work, Harris merges older or outmoded techniques such as analog film and video signals with newer editing and computer graphing techniques, creating hybrid works, stating “my interest is in the way technology continues to ‘evolve’ as well as the illusion of single images which form in relation to the movement and speed of the camera and form of light.”

More recently, Harris started working with African cloth in her videos, inspired by the way in which the fractal geometry of African patterns manifest a fascinating relation to digital design, mathematics and information technology, as ethno-mathematician Ron Eglash discussed in his book and Ted talk African Fractals: Modern Computing and Indigenous Design.

Currently living and working in Paris, Harris is a graduate of Indiana University Bloomington, she holds an MFA in New Media and followed theoretical studies on Cinema. Harris wrote and published scholarly essays on art and experimental cinema, which today are used as references in the fields of Contemporary Cinema and New Media Theory.

Portrait of African American artist Marguerite Harris
Marguerite Harris

Of her Expanded Cinema installations, Harris has said:

Much of my own work focuses on the idea of the body in time and space as well as the use of virtual technologies relating to video and computer graphing. In these works, there is an image projected through a collapsed sense of time. In the immersive video-film environments, the work explores archived images-events and phantom representations of fluid forms encased withing the digital frame which vanish at points and spaces reappearing in fragmented and entropied forms, creating states of vertigo.

Marguerite Harris, Artist’s Statement

During her 2016 residency, Marguerite Harris presented the solo exhibition Film is Un/Dead; an Expanded Cinema installation combined with interactive light display and treated/sewn analog film. Additionally, she conducted an analog film/sound workshop related to her art projects.

Summer 2017, she produced and presented several metal sculptures from her ongoing series “Worlds in Collision” in Berlin. They were subsequently presented in France, as part of the “21ᵉ édition de Sculptures en l’Île à Andrésy” plain air sculpture exhibition, taking place from May 18th – September 23rd 2018.

2018 Harris came to Berlin to work on new metal sculptures at the Sculpture Studio of the BBK Kulturwerk. Her “Worlds in Collision” sculptures were presented late August 2018 at SomoS.

Summer 2020, Harris took part in the SomoS group show REvisited, together with Carlos Herraiz and Karon Nilzén, presenting new metal sculptures produced at Berlin metal workshops The Cuboid and Linienhof Metallwerkstatt and Drittwerk.


Links:
https://sculpturempvideofox.wordpress.com/author/mpvideofox/
https://mpvideofox.wordpress.com/installations-2/
https://mpvideofox.wixsite.com/mysite
https://www.instagram.com/mpvidefox2/

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