In 312 Online:
July 1 - 31, 2006 / Elisabeth Smolarz, “You and Me”.

Two faces, a man’s and a woman’s, slowly morph into one another, creating intermediary moments of fluidity between sex and appearance. The faces blend and change from moment to moment.

“My work reflects my interest in social structures and the construction of identity. I use tools like the Internet, photography and video to consider how my environment—the world I live in—affects both me and the people I am surrounded by. The different media help me to analyze reality in contrast to cultural and social projections. In my photographs, drawings and videos I focus on the digital manipulation. The borderline between reality and imagination is very important to me in order to channel desired media productions. My goal is to give shape to the strategies of self definition, which result from these productions.” – Elisabeth Smolarz

Elisabeth Smolarz lives and works in New York City. She moved to Germany from Poland at the age of 13, growing up in-between two different cultures stamped by a Communist and Democratic system. After receiving her MFA from the State Academy of Fine Art in Stuttgart, she moved to New York City. Smolarz works in a variety of media, from photography to video to drawing.