Juliana Borinski

Juliana Borinski is a German-Brazilian artist based in Paris. Her work has been exhibited internationally in contemporary art centers and museums since 2006. Working with still and moving images, her works question the history of media through their primary resources: light, chemistry, matter, and devices. She rarely uses a camera or a video camera. Her images, generally abstract, are born directly on light-sensitive paper or film. What is usually just a simple medium becomes the very material of her work. She seeks error, lack, chance. Borinski deliberately positions herself on the margins of the visual media she exploits, avoiding conventional imagery and new technologies to work with "almost nothing." Each work is unique — at a time when copying requires only a click, she distances herself from technical reproducibility, dear to Walter Benjamin, to prioritize uniqueness.