Stephanie Corne

Lives and works in Brooklyn, NY, USA

Artist statement

Creating artwork is peeling away a layer of reality and replacing it with your own interpretation. This is how the “Embodiment” series came to be. This series is a set of photographs and videos . I invite professional dancers and people of all ages to my studio. I place my subject in front of one of my large-scale, abstract paintings, and then paint their entire body. I then photograph the subject with special lighting. The digital video is taken afterwards, when I choreograph their movements to music composed especially for the videos by Birgid Volens. The painting in the background sets the tone of how I will paint the subject. The figure will be harmony or contrast with the painting depending on what I want to express about the different states of one’s inner self. “Embodiment” is an interpretation of the grace emanating from the Self within the Self. I illustrate how a person appears on the inside when in harmony or in distress. When in peace, the being evolves in a beautiful inner home, undisturbed and of interchanging colors. It is creative and fearless. The dancers are allegories of that state of being. In my videos and photos, the dancers’ bodies are painted on with an emphasis on the ‘hara’. In Japanese, ‘hara’ is the physical and spiritual center of a person and is located right under the navel. The dancers rotate with and around their inner center in slow motion. They are fully balanced while their bodies play with gravity. My videos and photographs are...

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