Nathalie Mei is GlogauAIR resident
from January, 2024 to March, 2024
Nathalie Mei born in Eivissa, Balearic Islands, is a conceptual artist, installation artist, sculptor, photographer, and writer.
Meet the Artist
Her works often depict emotive and perceptual qualities of time and memory – and their relationship to the organic world and the virtual space. Her works serve the artist as a lens to examine human perception and outer-human, image-related worlds from a neurodiverse perspective.
Nathalie’s works are rooted in a multilayered and multidirectional understanding of time. They are informed by anthropology, philosophy, literature, pop culture, and art history.
Nathalie expands classical notions of conceptual art and the objet trouvé by introducing the relationship between emotional worlds and (maybe speculative) biographies within the geo-, zoe- and technoscene to questions around identity, copy, and original.
Statement
Nathalie Mei, born in Eivissa, Balearic Islands, is a conceptual artist and writer who works between Europe, the UK, and Japan. Her artworks depict perceptual qualities of time, emotion, memory, nomadism, and territory – and their relationship to the organic world and the virtual space. Through sculpting with fragile, organic materials, image-related data, texts, and sound, the artist intertwines questions around duration and biographical traces with material samples from local territories. Her works result from long durational, cyclical production processes and explore the partitioning between emotional and intellectual processes in human understanding of complex realities. Her works often interrelate and are, inter alia, informed by anthropology, philosophy, literature, and pop culture. The artist expands classical notions of conceptual art and the objet trouvé by introducing the relationship between emotional worlds and speculative biographies to questions around identity, copy, and original. During her residency, Nathalie translates (found-) footage from Kamakura and Nasu, Japan to sculpture, sound, and installation. “E.A.S.T. 08” is an exploration of the layered relationship between human emotion and territory from the perspective of the visitor. The work refers to “Emotional Archive of Spaces in Time”, a cluster of artworks the artist started creating in 2018. In spring 2024 Nathalie will be joining PADA Studios in Lisbon, Portugal, as an artist in residency.
GlogauAIR Project
During her time with GlogauAIR, Nathalie will work on her ongoing series “Emotional Archive of Spaces in Time (E.A.S.T.)” she started in 2018. Through various media, like sculpting, light installation, or sound, the artists draws connection between time, territory, biography, sensual memory and the segregation between emotional and cognitive perception of complex environments. Departing from photographs she took in 2022 at Mount Nasu in Tochigi prefecture, Japan, Nathalie will look at man-made and natural landscape lines as markers of interrelations between time, geological territory, and the emotional landscape of the visitor.
Installation, Sculpture, and Sound Art
CV Summary
Education
- 2018 Master of Arts, Contemporary Photography; Practices and Philosophies, Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts, London, UK
Funding
- 2022 Artist Scholarship, Deutscher Künstlerbund (German artists association), Berlin, DE
- 2021 Digital Fund, Berlin Artist Association (BBK Berlin), Berlin, DE
- 2020 Producers Art Fund, Producers Art Initiative, Hamburg, DE
Upcoming exhibitions, publications, residencies
- 2024 Artist in Residence program, PADA, Barreiro, PT (artist in residence)
- Artist in Residence Online Program, Glogau Air, Berlin, DE (online)
Past exhibitions, publications (selection)
- 2023 Taking the light out of the prism, Duplex, Artweekend Lisboa, Lisbon, PT (group show)
- We build this city, 48h Neukölln Festival, Berlin, DE (public installation)
- Tag der Offenen Ateliere, Neues Atelierhaus Panzerhalle, Potsdam, DE (open studios)
- 2022 Territories, Sluice 2022 x PADA, Artweekend Lisboa, Barreiro, PT (group show)
- Open studios, Duplex AIR, Artweekend Lisboa, Lisbon, PT (open studios)
- Cycles, Startbahn, 48h Neukölln Festival, Berlin, DE (duo show)
- MIXA, Collaboration with pio.near, Startbahn, 48h Neukölln Festival, Berlin, DE (performance)
- Alter US 2018-2022, London, UK (publication)
- 2021 48h Neukölln Festival, Emotional Archive of Spaces in Time 5 | ÆR, Schillerpromenade, Berlin, DE (public installation)
- Last Sunset / New Sunrise The Belfry and North Gallery at St- John’s on Bethnal Green Church, London, UK (group show)
- The Castle, Arthousehaus, London, UK (online)
- 2020 Now Producers Art Platform, Producers Art Initiative, Hamburg, DE (online)
- Bivouacs #2, Respirer hors école, RAW Académie, Bétonsalon – Centre d’art et de recherche, Paris, FR (group show)
- 2018 Tate Exchange, Tate Modern, London, UK (group show)
- Emerge, Show One, Contemporary Photography; Practices and Philosophies, Central Saint Martins, London, UK (degree show)
Past residencies, programs and talks
- 2022 Artweekend Lisboa, On complex systems – A curatorial introduction to “In between we swim” by Nathalie Mei, artist talk and screening, PADA, Barreiro, PT (artist talk, screening)
- Duplex Air Residency, Lisbon, PT (artist in residence)
- 2021 Development Support for Visual Artist, Cement Fields, Kent, UK (artist development program)
- 2020 Virtual Residency, Cel del Nord, Barcelona, ES (artist in residence, online)
In 2020 Nathalie Mei founded the transnational, female artist group LonBerSel with Lynda Beckett, Ana-Luiza Rodrigues and Susanna Brunetti.
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