Daniela Steinsapir
About Me
- Favorite Medium: mixed media
- Statement: The creations of joyful fantastic worlds are gifts for me because they made me develop a window with a new scope to look at life, one without prejudices and without inequalities. This new way of seeing life has given me the chance to stop seeing only the dark side of life as I was always used to do. Also is my reaction against the shocking violent mass media culture that is constantly surrounding us by the main stream. So my artwork is a mix of fantastic documentary and escapist because of the possibility to express positive imaginary of our reality. I seek to produce a new kind of faith by the possibility of creating imaginary landscapes to bring new thoughts to our daily life experiences. My art work is an invitation to see the unseen or the non apparent relationships that are “there” in our every day life.” I investigate the boundaries between our relationship with public and private spaces, between reality and our imaginary world, and between our conscious and unconscious stages to determine the true value of portraiture and its capability to represent and to evaluate human nature.
- Bibliography: Since 1998, she exhibited in Town Halls and
in cultural institutes. She had collaborated as a visual artist with
television production and advertising companies and also with educational
establishments. The techniques that she uses in classic photography and
in the different ways that digital art offers has given her the
possibility of focusing her work on the different cultural-social aspects that
are produced by our contemporary environment. An example of this is the
traditional vision towards the existing contrast between the
technological worlds with the portrait genre founded in contemporary urban
reality. She worked as a photographer and as the corporative image adviser
for the educational center, Games and Learning House.
Together
with exhibiting and selling her artworks in different art galleries and
cultural centers. She is also developing different digital art projects
orientated to institutional, educational centers and web sites. Among
them, is to distinguished the Tierra de la Frontera project in which she
is collaborating with the visual artist Alexander Sutulov. This project
is in its first phase, named: Santiago Enter, a morphological study of
the urban landscape historical evolution of Santiago.
In
September 2003, she continues her investigation of this project throughout a
Fulbright grant to study a Master of Fine Arts in the Conceptual
Information Arts area, at the San Francisco State University. Since her
arrival to San Francisco she has collaborated as a photographer with the
Hispanic Chamber of Commerce, she donated artwork for a silent auction
benefiting the Mexican Museum at a reception held at the Yerba Buena
Center for the arts. Have participated in various exhibitions, one in the
World Affair Council called, Youth Chilean Art where she was chosen to
exhibit by the Chilean consulate in San Francisco. At the same time she
was showing her artwork in the 14th Stillwell Students Show, in the fine
arts gallery of San Francisco State University. In February she
participated in the Cultural Chilean festival where she exhibited artwork and
she as well participated in Fulbright Art exhibition held in the
regional office of IIE west coast in San Francisco.
- Birth City: Santiago, Chile
- Birth Year: 1976
Contact
Professional
- Awards: 2003 FULBRIGHT
SCHOLAR FOR MFA
2003 SAN FRANCISCO STATE UNIVERSITY ROMBERG
TIBURON CENTER ART STUDIO
- Teaching Experience: 2003 ART FOR THE CHILDREN PROJECT Digital
artwork inspired in the imaginary world of healthy children. Charity
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