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Interview with an Artist: Carola Mücke

25.07.2011

One-day visit to Dublin Contemporary office – featuring Carola Mücke

German-born Antwerp-based artist Carola Mücke creates works in various media, ranging from installation, video, photography, drawing and objects. Her approach favours experimentation and process over material. Deeply rooted in surrealism, Mücke’s work plays on the search for unexpected meaning. A deep interest in the human body and its functionality, reanimation and the questioning of how stereotypes are produced and copied in our daily lives, are some of Carola Mücke’s core themes. Often darkly comic, her works focus on boundaries between decency, sanity and morality, questioning the authenticity of human behaviour along the way.

Liliana Rodrigues: How did you become an artist?

Carola Mücke: Actually for a long time I did not want to become an artist, although my life always seemed to be heading in that direction. So instead, I studied medicine for some time, and took courses in political science. Ultimately, I stopped fighting against it - it sounds strange, but that’s what happened.  So via studies in illustration and video I made my way into the “fine arts”...
LR: How did these disciplines contribute to what you do now?

CM: The human body and its functions is definitely one aspect that keeps resurfacing in my work. And a strong connection to literature and narrative is often visible. In the end, those different areas of study did enrich my art practice, because they lead to unexpected trains of thought.

LR: What can the visitor expect to see in September?

CM: For Dublin Contemporary I will present a sound and light installation, but I don’t want to reveal too much at this point, so that it can be a surprise for the audience!

Carola Mücke, ‘Unterwasser’, video still, projection/loop, Super 8 on digital video, 2001, courtesy of the artist

http://www.carolamucke.com/

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