Katja Farin
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Katja Farin在2018年取得加州大學藝術學士學位，現生活、工作於美國洛杉磯和英國倫敦。
Farin將畫作視為一個抽象而不斷演變的表演片段，來揭示一系列的體驗，呈現千禧世代當下的面貌。她的世界以柔和的色調呈現，由微妙的顏色變化、模糊的輪廓和流暢的形式組成。在她的作品中沒有南加州明亮的陽光，也沒有高清的解晰度，每個人物看起來都相當奇幻且不真實。這些人物形象相當模糊，性別、種族、年齡和面孔都讓人難以辨認。
Farin認為，模糊性、匿名性不僅是為了讓觀眾能夠在這些形象中看到自己，也是對當代互動的一種表達：那些疏遠的、窺視的、因沉浸於社群媒體而焦慮的現象。其中，許多形象是來自於身邊的人，但她很少使它們變得可識別，Farin為這些形象注入了焦慮、失落、關懷、空虛、煉獄和不穩定性的元素。
Farin曾個展於Friends Indeed ( 舊金山 )、Era Gallery ( 米蘭 )、Lubow ( 紐約 ) 以及in lieu ( 洛杉磯 ) 等國內外畫廊，並曾在Alexander Berggruen ( 紐約 )、Beers ( 倫敦 )、Wilding Cran與Nicodim ( 洛杉磯 ) 等畫廊參與聯展。
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Katja Farin lives and works in Los Angeles, USA and London, UK. She received a BA in Fine Art from the University of California, Los Angeles in 2018. Selected solo exhibitions include Friends Indeed (San Francisco), Era Gallery (Milan), Lubov (New York) and in lieu (Los Angeles). She has been included in group exhibitions at Alexander Berggruen (New York), Beers (London), Wilding Cran (Los Angeles) and Nicodim (Los Angeles).
Farin sees the paintings as vignettes of an abstract, ongoing performance, revealing a set of experiences, and presenting a screenshot of the millennial’s current moment. Her world is rendered in a muted palette made up of subtle tonal shifts, blurred outlines and fluid forms. There’s no bright Southern Californian sunlight or HD clarity in her works—rather everybody looks quite magical and unreal. Her figures are left rather ambiguous. Genders, races, ages and faces are hard to make out.
“Ambiguity, or perhaps anonymity,” Farin says, “is meant not only to allow viewers a way to see themselves within the figures, but also to be an expression of contemporary interactions: those that are distant, voyeuristic and fueled by anxiety surrounding social media. Many of them are based on the people around me, but I rarely render them recognizable. I’d like to think that I inject the figures with anxiety, loss, relationship, care, void, purgatory and precarity.”