MarieGayatri

Marie Gayatri Kristoffersson

Ormgatan 19 c,
412 62 Gothenburg,
Sweden

Phone:
+46 13 54 19,
+46704 435 859

E-mail: marie.gayatri@telia.com

Website: www.landartcrossing.com

Blog:
www.landartcrossing.blogspot.com

Education
2009 -2007 Master degree in Visual didactic studies, University of Gothenburg
1985- 1990 Academy of crafts and design, University of Gothenburg, Sweden

CV - please visit www.landartcrossing.com

Practice
Marie Gayatri Kristoffersson’s artistic practice involves land art and site specific projects, video art, painting and writing. Her artistic practice is closely liked with pedagogical activities for students and adults. Her pedagogical work is based on land art and outdoor education and her resent visual studies invoke questions and alternatives to art education in school, where land art may play a central part for the future. Marie Gayatri has been working with Land art since -94 and with pedagogical programs this last 10 years.

Artprojects
-made in different countries and environments. Most of the projects have been made in the wilderness, a few in urban areas.

Upcoming
Land art project in Mongolia - Art Camp summer 2010, organized by BLUE SUN, Mongolia.

Statement
From an educational background in crafts, I started to examine how human relations are connected to sites and to the wilderness. From these experiences I have developed a visual language expressing contemporary ethics and reflections. This visual language may be described as; on one hand reflective and realistic visually and practical attempts to blend and harmonize with the wilderness, a site or nature. On the other hand many of my projects have a taste for contrasts, absurdities, humor and a surrealistic view that might be experiences from an observer. I like to play with fantasies of what may be experienced or seen by a visitor at the actual Land Art project and sometimes I fuse these fantasies in to a realistic/traditional way of working and expressing Land Art.