Lauren Strohacker
Artist Statement
Animals disappear: some literally, in the wake of human expansion, some metaphorically, becoming ubiquitous and fading into the urban landscape. My suburban upbringing was filled with mediated representations of the animal: literature, television, and corporate branding. While the feeling of attachment to wildlife was authentic, the wildlife itself was artificial. Even an encounter with a living, breathing animal is bound by unseen regulation. Populations are controlled, predators are decimated, and survivors are displaced to the edge of human comfortability. Boundary lines are drawn and animals are expected to obey, and subversion of this obedience is punishable by death. These realizations underpin my exploration as an artist. Often collaborating with environmental organizations, I compose interdisciplinary interventions that utilize human networks in order to reimagine and reintroduce wildlife systems destabilized by our manufactured environments. Both real and imaginary interactions with animals influence human perceptions of cohabitation vs. conflict, a dichotomy that ultimately determines the uncertain fate of wildlife in the Anthropocene.
Write: lauren@laurenstrohacker.orgInstagram: @laurenstrohacker
Twitter: @StrohackerArt
NO(w)HERE
Lauren Strohacker
paper, wheat paste
2009 - present
Photo Credit: Shiloh Walkosac
Encounter
Lauren Strohacker
Reflecting white road paint, MDF board
2013
Photo Credit: Jeff Ambrose
Animal Land
Lauren Strohacker & Kendra Sollars
video projection
2013 - present
Photo Credit: Kendra Sollars
Un-Fragmenting / Des-Fragmentando
(view from Douglas, Arizona)
Lauren Strohacker
digital projection, trail cam photos, US-Mexico border wall
2017
Un-Fragmenting / Des-Fragmentando
(view from Agua Prieta, Sonora)
Lauren Strohacker
digital projection, trail cam photos, US-Mexico border wall
2017
Photo Credit: M. Jenea Sanchez
WONDERFUL STUFF LAUREN... KEEP DIGGIN'...
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