{"id":4773,"date":"2019-03-17T16:05:31","date_gmt":"2019-03-17T20:05:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/artistdirectory\/?p=4773"},"modified":"2019-12-24T11:52:34","modified_gmt":"2019-12-24T16:52:34","slug":"jessica-oreck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/artistdirectory\/jessica-oreck","title":{"rendered":"Jessica Oreck"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"jessica-oreck-homburg\"
\nTo KH. From Homburg, Germany. May, 2017<\/em>
\n5″x4″; found vintage papers; 2017<\/p>\n

Jessica Oreck
\nNew York, New York, USA<\/strong><\/p>\n

STATEMENT<\/strong><\/p>\n

“From Where I Am” is an on-going epistolary body of work–a collage-based, mail art, travel diary.<\/p>\n

The series assimilates many facets: a ceaseless wanderlust, an obsession with collecting, a reveling in new perspectives, and a deep fascination with the impenetrable miscellany of detritus\/treasure that filters through time.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m enthralled by the objects and remnants that fall through the cracks–caught somewhere in limbo between belonging(s) and trash–the habitually forgotten residues of other people\u2019s lives.<\/p>\n

I tend to think of myself less as an artist and more as a Bower Bird, compositing and arranging archipelagos of intricate nests.<\/p>\n

The collages each engage directly with a sense of place. Every collection is comprised of materials gathered in a single location. Drawing on the limitations and precision of the imagery, the collages reveal a sort of palimpsest of ethos–a layering of mutating cultural vogues, the anonymous censorship of time, and my own socially muddied sense of self.<\/p>\n

The body of work as a whole is littered with tropes of fragmentation–implications of a new homeless, rudderless generation–splintered egos, empty thresholds, indistinct, fractured landscapes.<\/p>\n

The series is motivated by an exacting arrangement, a sensitive cataloging of the sublime, casual, and transitory images that assemble our lives.<\/p>\n

“From Where I Am” is more than a series of two-dimensional collages; it is, quite physically, an orientation toward community, connection, and identity–a reflection of my existence as a foreigner. In my work as a filmmaker, I have spent long periods time in Japan, Russia and Eastern Europe, I\u2019ve traveled extensively across parts of Africa and the Middle East, lived with a family of reindeer herders in Northern Lapland and I currently reside in the German countryside. I am rarely at \u201chome\u201d for more than two or three months a year. The sensation of being immersed in a culture and language to which I don\u2019t belong is of equal importance to the delicate lines of communication that tie me back to those I know.<\/p>\n

Each collection of collages is sent to various recipients, inscribed with a personal message, from where I am.<\/p>\n

BIO<\/strong><\/p>\n

Jessica Oreck makes projects across mediums in an effort to re-inspire a sense of wonder about the world of the every-day.<\/p>\n

She\u2019s made several feature films (Beetle Queen Conquers Tokyo<\/em> (2009), Aatsinki: The Story of Arctic Cowboys<\/em> (2013), The Vanquishing of the Witch Baba Yaga<\/em> (2014), and One Man Dies a Million Time<\/em>s (2018)) that have been shown around the world.<\/p>\n

Jessica also works in paper-based animation, creating educational content for TED and other online networks (Mysteries of Vernacular<\/em> (2011), In a Moment of Vision<\/em> (2017), and Arthropoda<\/em> (2014)).<\/p>\n

Collage has been a part of Jessica\u2019s animations for more than a decade, but since the beginning of 2016, she has been producing more permanent pieces for her ongoing, epistolary series, “From Where I Am”.<\/p>\n

ARTIST CONTACT<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\nINSTAGRAM<\/a><\/p>\n

IMAGES<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\nTo TH. From Berlin, Germany. June, 2017<\/em>
\n5″x4″; found vintage papers; 2017<\/p>\n

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\nUnsent. From Saint Petersburg, Russia. March, 2017<\/em>
\n4″x5″; found vintage papers; 2017<\/p>\n

\"jessica-oreck-Trier_1\"
\nTo JJ. From Trier, Germany. January, 2017<\/em>
\n5″x4″; found vintage papers; 2017<\/p>\n

\"jessica-oreck-Paris_1\"
\nTo TH. From Paris, France. September, 2017<\/em>
\n5″x4″; found vintage papers; 2017<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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