Urban Mesh 6742 - Limited Edition Photograph

Magdalene Carmen merges dream with street grit, fineArt with popArt aesthetics, evocative with playful-provocative intent in dynamic, abstract-geometric works centred on two subjects: Urban & Woman (fashion / self-portraits). Mediums: digital photography, graphics, glitch effects, AI, English lingo, her body, vocals, poetry/music. Practices art activism (subtly, playfully) in beyond-pretty work that is also social commentary. Key series: 1) Addict: semiotic, digital flag-collages (hybrid of MC's urban photography, fashion (self-) portraits & graphics) articulating the corporeal-spiritual, conscious-unconscious tug of war defining the human condition, besides being intimations of feminine power in necessary contrast with masculine dynamics 2) Give Me A Sign: English lingo x sign satires on #popculture. 3) Her/Dancer: Photographic &/or AI x glitch FX #selfportraits celebrating the feminine form as eternal romantic-erotic art figure 4} Urban Mesh: kinetic, abstract-architectural portraits of Melbourne (AU) from train windows, being this artist's creative travel advocacy supporting Global Goal No. 11: Sustainable Cities & Communities. One of just six contemporary artists for Australia’s inaugural digital billboard Art Prize exhibition (AU Summer 2020) adapted in 2022 for the Big Screen in Fed Square, Melbourne. Regular exhibitor, Melbourne Centre for Contemporary Photography. So far iRL exhibited in London, Melbourne, New York, Venice. Top-100 female digital-NFT artists, exhibited + collected at Makersplace. Featured + galleried artist at Lensculture. Some IRL works in private collections. Also published poet, sometimes alt-pop musician, dancer. Studied: creative writingXjournalism, photographyXfashion design. Works more or less emote these influences / impacts: Banksy's art activism, Guy Bourdin's erotic couture in fashion portraits, PopArt's power, Apple's design minimalism. "The thing about art is: it has its own life. I simply begin with an idea, I play & experiment. And then some instinctual thing moves me one way or another. This is the most joyful thing : when I don't know what will come but I believe I'll get there and then I do. Or I don't and start again. I like the playing part very much, the experimenting / discovering, the excitement about what could be."