Artist's Statement - Barbara Bachner
Digital Prints
It is important to me that the figures in thiese works are generic, frontal and immobile, as they function as
archetypes, while their environment shifts and transforms. This practice allows me to explore identity as I depict the self in different psychological states, various surroundings, even at different ages and genders.
My prints with their layers of scanned documents and appropriations as well and digital painting, reflect my personal history as well as my process as an artist. The figures function as icons of the self and as abstract shapes that can mime the presence of trees in a landscape.