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Capitana F

‘’The beginning of my video performances, 2005, can be understood retrospectively as a reaction to the
expanding virtualization of social reality. Subsequently, under „masking“ in the broadest sense, I developed
various types of medium/form relations. This also applies to those works in which, in addition to various art-
immanent topoi painting is negotiated as a dispositive in the dispositive of art. My interest in screen printing
follows the fact that it revolutionized painting. My hand-pulled silkscreens are always to be understood in
the context of the performative: concept, reflective attitude, “poetry of action” (Henri Focillon).
The motif on the stencil is a screenshot – taken with open source software – with a detail of ‚Judith
Beheading Holofernes‘ (c. 1620) by Artemisia Gentileschi. The stencil copy was exposed using UV radiation
from the sun. Via Hard Fork, in the algorithm of my printing process, I make a new unit. By rotation, each
color (Yellow – Magenta – Cyan) is printed at a different angle, using the same frame with only one stencil.
Each work is unique.’’
Capitana F was born in 1976 in Munich. The artist lives and works in Vienna since 2020. Previously in
Berlin from 2006 to 2019. She studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich (Olaf Metzel), the
Hungarian Academy of Fine Arts in Budapest (Intermedia Department, János Sugár), and the Academy
of Fine Arts in Vienna (Heimo Zobernig). In 2007 she was awarded the art prize of the Tisa von der
Schulenburg Foundation.

Artemisia Gentileschi, Judith Beheading Holofernes_028 Artemisia Gentileschi, Judith Beheading Holofernes_027
Silkscreen print on paper, 65x50cm, 2023 Silkscreen print on paper, 65x50cm, 2023

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