Novella Oliana
Aix-Marseille Université, LESA - Visual arts, Department Member
- Visual Arts, Photography, Art Practice as Research, Mediterranean space, Transforming landscape, Interferences and layers, and 17 moreMiddle Eastern photography, Philosophy of Photography, Photography and Transforming Space, Practice-Based Research, Processes Underpinning Creative Practice, Models of Creativity & of Creative Processes, Visual Art, Contemporary Photography, Photography Theory, Visual Studies, Arts-sciences interdisciplinarity, Arts and Sciences, Interdisciplinarity, Art of memory, Philosphy, Aesthetics, and Visual Narrativeedit
- * Researching the image, teaching the process, assembling small systems * Novella Oliana is a visual artist, a researcher and a teacher. She mainly works with photography, writing and video. With a background in cultural studies, focusing on the Mediterranean and the Middle East, she is a PhD research scholar in photography and Visual Art at Aix-Marseille University (France). She lives and works in Rome and Marseille. Her practical and theoretical research focuses on the ... more* Researching the image, teaching the process, assembling small systems *
Novella Oliana is a visual artist, a researcher and a teacher. She mainly works with photography, writing and video. With a background in cultural studies, focusing on the Mediterranean and the Middle East, she is a PhD research scholar in photography and Visual Art at Aix-Marseille University (France). She lives and works in Rome and Marseille. Her practical and theoretical research focuses on the representation of the Mediterranean sea surface as a hybrid space where form and content transform and interact generating areas of contact, separation, interrelation and juxtaposition. Through an interdisciplinary approach, focused on a methodology of theory and practice, she considers photography as an artistic and perceptual experience where research, its methodology and the possibility of its theoretical development are placed. Photographic image, free from its mere aesthetic experience, becomes an open, stratified, transforming surface conveying the space of the process itself and providing an embodied experience.edit - Jean Arnaud, Maître de Conférences - Professeur agrégé, département des arts plastiquesedit
En quoi l'intimité d'un lieu que j'appelle maison rencontre l'extimité d'un espace universellement imposé dans le catalogue du fabricant suédois de meubles IKEA ? Que rôle, en tant que photographe, peut-il avoir mon regard dans... more
En quoi l'intimité d'un lieu que j'appelle maison rencontre l'extimité d'un espace universellement imposé dans le catalogue du fabricant suédois de meubles IKEA ? Que rôle, en tant que photographe, peut-il avoir mon regard dans l'utilisation consciente du pouvoir mystificateur de la photographie et de la manipulation du brand story imposé par IKEA ? Cette étude essaie de répondre à ces questions pour réfléchir sur le brouillage forgé par l'interaction d'une réalité extime imposée avec mon espace intime photographié et donc manipulé. A travers l'utilisation d'images extraites du catalogue et photographiées chez moi, je raconte le récit imaginaire d'un espace liminaire à la lisière de la réalité qui existe entre réalité et fiction. Ce territoire d'interférences, métaphore du monde contemporain, permet de réfléchir sur les implications qui lient aujourd'hui l'image à différents récits (des oeuvres et du spectateur) dans une époque post-photographique.
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Un'indagine linguistica e visuale sulla rappresentazione di un evento spartiacque dal punto di vista culturale, sociale e politico, analizzato attraverso gli occhi di intellettuali ed artisti egiziani nei primi anni del XXI secolo.