Ursa Schoepper

Experimental Fine Art Photography

Ursa Schoepper is developing autonomous photographic fine art works that exist as a virtual reality in a realistic reality. A photographic image is generated through algorithmic grammar into an autonomous work of fine art photography. It is a transformation of real objects into abstract objects, the transformation of the concrete into an abstract art work, an abstract autonomous photographic artwork, in the best sense a visual disturbance, a shift, an unmasking and release of past visions and ways of seeing and viewing.

Ursa Schoeppers photographic artworks represents the inherent not yet. Photographic material seen as a process matter. According to Ernst Bloch matter is always matter in process, and the urge to forward a not-yet carry within themselves. A new and innovative technology, such as the digital image capture and image transformation allows, as a deliberate offensive action the creative process. It is no longer primarily a technical feature, but generative instance.

Interview Contemporary Art Curator Magazine, http://www.contemporaryartcuratormagazine.com/home-2/interview-with-ursa-schoepper

What is it about your studio space that inspires you?

My curiosity to look at things differently. In the studio but also outside.

What sounds, scents and sights do you encounter while in your studio?

Sometimes Jazz. And I love the view in my garden.

What is your favourite material to work with? How has your use of it evolved throughout your practice?

I love photographic material as a material. How is digital material constructed? So how can I use it creatively? What does the result tell us about our perception? It is also exciting to look at reality systemically.Looking for truth, artistic design moves between the imitation of realistic realities and their abstraction. It is very interesting for me to look at photography as a mask of reality, as a arole model, as the archetype of a perception, a way of seeing and point of view. Aesthetic redesign does not mean devaluation, but in the process allows the way to an autonomous photographic art.

What themes do you pursue?

I deal with philosophical aspects. With the realistic reality and the virtual reality,understood as what is possible after the possibility and what is possible in possibility, as Ernst Bloch describe it. At the same time, I'm fascinated by the connections of the system theory. Looking at photographic work against the background of systems theory is tremendously exciting.

What advice has had the biggest impact on your career?

During my cultural management studies, Professor Eckart Pankoke gave us an interesting note on innovation. He recommended: "Wer seine Chance ergreift, riskiert wie der Künstler und das strategische Genie das Aufbrechen der Wahrnehmungsroutinen und im Extrem (Selbst-) Zerstörung. Doch nur das Risiko der Destruktion kann der Innovation den Weg öffnen.“ Prof.Eckart Pankoke

If you could install your art absolutely anywhere, where would that be?

Wherever I can touch people's souls. Wherever a dynamic, open, creative and innovative climate can be found, and where it is understood that an unorthodox approach to photographic material can mean looking forward. A change of vision, dynamism and processing do not let forget the past.

If you could only have one piece of art in your life, what would it be?

An art work by Gerhard Richter or Pablo Picasso

If you weren´t an artist, what would you be doing?

A scientific researcher

What are your favourite places besides your studio?

I like to be on travel, curious to explore the world, meet friendly people, learn from them

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