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Lidija Commeça

Photographer

Bio

Bon in Belgrade, former Yugoslavia, raised in Germany. I have studied languages and work as a freelance translator. All my life I have been looking for various methods for expressing my emotional life. I have been influenced by the surrealist and dadaist artists from the 1920s and 1930s but also by the the photographic credo of the pictorialists and early ghost photography dating back to the beginning of the 19th century. My favourite photographic method is the double exposure technique which is like using like a magic wand. I can create a world in which everything is possible, from walking on water and making fish fly to manipulating the real-life size of objects, landscapes, flora and fauna. Visually, I was inspired by the surreal elements in the movies of Jack Arnold and later David Cronenberg whereas the message I aim to transport is the complexity of the human mind. Here, I see myself as a visual descendant of Ingmar Bergman and Andrei Tarkovsky. My main psychological themes are anxiety, fear, emotional stress, the ambiguities of life, the metamorphoses of a human being in an ever-changing world. Another passion of mine is music and I have made a handful of music videos for independent musicians using various techniques, such as stop motion or loop clips.

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