Thunter Haven’s artistic practice regularly draws from personal experience to reflect on broader social structures, offering a critical reflection on these systems, commonly addressing forms of alienation, love, violence, identity, oppression, community and faith through non-linear narratives.
Relationships are frequently established with the surrounding context through a visual representation of the physical body (at times the damaged body) as a symbol of vulnerability, fragility, imperfection, but also resilience, strength, and self-recognition. Gestures that point to elements of our humanness, or its absence. A dialogue between real and fiction, the re-writing of stories (as a healing process) that explore transitory spaces of our evolving, ephemeral nature, navigating physical, emotional, cultural, and social landscapes.
A visual symbioses of evocation and depiction, concerned with the representation of ideas, from the interplay of analog drawings, digital sketches, painting, tattooing, printmaking, personal photographs and object assemblage, the resulting images bridge traditional techniques with machine-assisted methods connecting historical practices with contemporary technologies.
In distinct moments form is stripped to its symbolic core, seeking to communicate directly, where the image becomes language; the symbol, a visual grammar. Mimesis of the physical world appears as an act of self-recognition and gathering of information. This culminates in a unified visual universe that allows us to go beyond the perceived physical experience.
Analyzing reproduction, singularity, transformation and materiality, by navigating the space between the precision of machines and the irregularities of the human-made, the artist’s practice reflects on how different modes of making shape our understanding of presence, recognition and process; machines (screen, scanner, or pen) as an extension of the self, how the act of creation relies on technical systems and accessible tools. Mirroring the world’s organizational systems: a layered, paradoxical structure polarized, interconnected, shaped as much by tension as by continuity.
Thunter Haven is a multidisciplinary artist and musician working across painting, drawing, photography, writing, and film. Her practice examines the intersections of psychology, sociology, contemporary culture, and technology, drawing from studies in history, science, anatomy, mythology, and medieval iconography.
Based in Berlin.
Thank you Artemisia Gentileschi, Caravaggio, John Everett Millais, Francisco Goya, Anselm Kiefer, The Quay Brothers, Thelonious Monk, John Coltrane, Daniel Johnston, Raymond Pettibon, The Beatles, Wesley Willis, Egon Schiele, Massive Attack, Antoni Tàpies, Andre 3000, Lou Reed, Virginia Woolf, Black Flag, David Lynch, Cocteau Twins, Francis Bacon, Erykah Badu, Sylvia Plath, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Beethoven, David Hughes, Lana del Rey, Arcade Fire, Patti Smith, Outkast Franz Kafka, Nan Goldin, Nick Cave, Amyl and the Sniffers, Shelley Duvall, Roger Ballen, Richard Avedon, Terry Gilliam, Kendrick Lamar, Lauryn Hill, Radiohead, Nirvana, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Hole, Carolee Schneemann, Günter Brus, Arca, PJ Harvey, F. W. Murnau, Edvard Munch, Käthe Kollwitz, Idles, Florence Welch, Arctic Monkeys, Nina Simone, Edward Hopper, Mary Shelley, Ty Segall.
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