Maia Gusberti
Maia Gusberti is an artist based in Bern and a researcher at HSLU. Her work develop from questioning (lens based) images, their materiality and framing through de-/reconstruction and between static and moving images. She transforms images to use them as a poetic space of affection and agency. The image is her projection surface, a space for thinking, a repository of collective and individual imagination. Her conceptual approach leads to process-oriented fragmentary assemblages, essayistic layouts, installations and video works. The city as a living organism, a multi-layered landscape, a framework of personal experiences and social processes is the visual background of her studies. Her artistic practice involves curatorial projects as i.e. the film series “Komplexe Bilder” (Cinema REX, Bern) or the exhibition “Choreography of the image” (Kunsthalle Exnergasse, Vienna). She repeatedly visited the Middle East as an artist in residence, lived and worked in Vienna, Cairo, Brussels and Bern. Her works are presented at inter/national exhibitions, conferences and festivals (www.maiagusberti.net).