Firm Boundaries Installation

Bianca Pratorius was born in Cologne, Germany in 1969. She started her formal training at the Holzfachschule, Köln where she received a BFA equivalent degree in fine furniture building and design and subsequently moved to Miami where she attended International Fine Arts College. Her work is featured internationally in many private and corporate collections including the "Millennium Partners Collection" permanently housed in the Four Seasons Hotel in Miami. She has exhibited her work at the Gulf Coast Museum in a three person show as well as the 2012 Biennial for Installation Art at the Appleton Museum of Art. In her work Pratorius explores pattern, structure and repetition through the use of simple yet labor- intensive processes. Her work arises out of a desire to organize and secure her own reality in a world that is becoming increasingly more chaotic and interdependent. She continuously investigates different materials for their structural and tactile potential and the process of selecting them is very deliberate. The materials themselves are essentially simple even unremarkable when viewed in their raw state, but lend themselves beautifully to repetition and expansion thus becoming the perfect counterbalance to the structures she creates with them.