Cristiane Bouger

Cristiane Bouger, Brooklyn, NY, is an artist working with live performance, video, poetry, and critical writing. She is inspired by philosophy, literature, contemporary dance, and punk/post-punk influences. The imagery of her work reveals both existential and symbolic examinations upon the body, biography, culture, and politics. The substance of her practice reflects on the paradoxical nature of human experience with its clash, overlapping, and intertwinement of existence/essence, immanence/transcendence, presence/absence, and biography/fiction. Through her interdisciplinary work, she aims to provoke dissonances and the displacement of meaning to ignite an unexpected perceptual apprehension on the viewers. She looks for the gap in which the automatized recognition of meaning fails, allowing space for reflection and contemplation. Her work has been presented in theaters, museums, festivals, and galleries in the USA, Brazil, Italy, France, Spain, Romania, and South Africa. She is the co-founder of Umwelt Studio, in Brooklyn, New York.

www.cristianebouger.com

This bio/description was originally published in 2018 and updated in 2019. For more current information, please refer to the award recipient's website (if provided).