Light

Winner

Project Statement

The time we awakeTo a life we never choseNo matter the joys, no matter the woes.How we seeThe people, the placesAnd the years written across their faces.What we knowIs true and just —Lies and malice shall turn to dust.The lonely path toWhat the heart desiresNo matter the horrors that may transpire.A glimmer of modernityIn glassy eyesHeralding humanity, digitised.A vivid memoryThat went from a sparkTo the last light one saw before the dark.

Biography

Catrine Val is a German conceptual artist, working in the field of photography, film and performance. Val started as a commercial artist in the advertising industry in Vienna and continued to complete her BA at Kunsthochschule Kassel in Germany and her post-graduate studies at Kunsthochschule für Medien in Cologne. She worked for 6 years as an assistant lecturer to Bjørn Melhus at Kunsthochschule Kassel. Out of interest in the concepts of time and history, she focuses on the role of women within diverse cultural and political systems, while she works extensively in popular etymology. Val has collaborated with women in India, South America, Asia and Europe.www.catrineval.com