Ingrid Boberg
Ingrid's photographs take the viewer outside of reality and into the fantastical by quietly seducing us with her selection and arrangement of the objects.
Ingrid Boberg received an MFA from RMIT in Australia and is a
Senior Lecturer of Photography at AUT.
Ingrid uses an archival inkjet process to print her works,
creating soft colours and a matte surface. Her vibrant compositions
of constructed realities and seemingly familiar environments are
disquieting, whether she is orchestrating an artificial scene with
found figurines or camouflaging the staged interiors with what she
calls the "cute factor." Ingrid enables viewers to be both audience
and narrator navigating through a compilation of mini-scenarios.
Ingrid's photographs take the viewer outside of reality and into
the fantastical by quietly seducing us with her selection and
arrangement of the objects. These desirable interiors comment on
the effort to imitate perfectly ordered interiors seen in design
magazines, but ironically, they are settings of conformity and lack
of individuality. Warm, yet stifled; familiar, yet distant;
pleasant, yet disconcerting, it is the beauty of the compositions
that comes through in her photographs of interiors.
She has twice been accepted as a finalist for the Salon de la
Reserche Photographique in Royan France. In 2005, Ingrid was a
finalist in the New Zealand Vodafone Digital Art Awards and a
finalist at the Trust Waikato National Contemporary Art Award. She
exhibits in New Zealand, Australia, and the United
States.
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