Natascha Christina Petersen

About

Natascha Christina Petersen (DK/BR, b.1994) is a London-based interdisciplinary artist focusing on the photographic landscape and discourse. She did her bachelor’s in photography at the University of Europe for Applied Sciences, Berlin (2017-2021). Her practice often explores the boundaries of photography, wondering how far we can stretch the medium until it takes the shape of something else. Oftentimes her projects begin with questions of a theoretical nature, probing scientific, philosophical and psychological themes, and her practice covers disciplines like photography, writing, installations, interactive designs and synthetic media. 

The project “There Is This Bush Growing Under a Streetlamp” is an interactive piece inviting to reconsider how the concept of self is perceived. By visualising the visitors’ brainwaves Petersen introduces the viewer to an altered version of themselves. The visitor’s brainwaves are visualised live, pushing and stretching the particles displayed on the monitor inside the cube. It is a philosophical inquiry into the concept of ‘self’ and is ultimately a question of what is intrinsic for us to be us. In other words, what is replaceable, and what is not? “There Is This Bush Growing Under a Streetlamp” is an invitation to look within. To explore and to acknowledge. Cut off from the world, it introduces you to you.   (For video shots: https://www.nataschapetersen.com/there-is-this-bush-growing-under-a-stree)