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.
The beginning of my video performances, 2005, can be understood retrospectively as areaction to the expanding virtualisation 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 by means of UV radiation from the sun. Via Hard Fork in the algorithm of my printing process I make a new unit. By rotation, each colour (Yellow – Magenta – Cyan) is printed in a different angle, using the same frame with only one stencil. Each work is unique.
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