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Current PhD - Current PhD - Marking the borders of the Self through the art making process.

The intention for my practice-based research is to create an innovative body of work, the trajectory of which parallels the work of artists of the Sixties and Seventies such as Anna Maria Maiolino, Lygia Clark and Ana Mendieta and of contemporary artists such as Rivane Neuenschwander and Mona Hatoum. The project intends to contribute to the ongoing debate on strategies for a re-interpretation of the thinking of Process Art Movements of the Sixties and Seventies, in the light of theoretical critical debates on contemporary art.
My interest in locating parallels between the trajectory of my practice and the afore mentioned artists emerges from the realization that certain conceptual interests, and the processes they entail, converge in such individual artistic practices, developed in different historical periods and in different parts of the world. Beyond a question of simply pertaining to the current revived interest in Process Art Movements of Sixties and Seventies, this convergence raises important questions with regard to the historical context of these artists in relation to my own. This emphasises a need to map out a genealogy of my work – as representative of an artist who operates within the current context of both national and international contemporary art practice and theoretical debates – in relation to theirs.

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