Artist Statement
My practice is an ongoing attempt to situate one’s self within both the physical landscape and the narratives that have formed within it. I am interested in the ways in which the representation of place has supplanted the places themselves and how this mediation influences our construction of identity. My practice adopts a discursive approach to photography that seeks to engage the increasingly attentive and critical stance toward the medium’s multiple truths, histories, aesthetics, and uses; directing them toward the need to recover a sense of belonging from a contested landscape that is drifting toward more severe states of physical and psychological uncertainty.
Hans Gindlesberger is an artist and educator currently based in Blacksburg, Virginia. His practice examines how contemporary society constructs and represents concepts of place, where the photographic image plays a central role. Gindlesberger’s projects engage a range of photographic traditions and thinking in exploring our psychological relationship to simulated and actual places.
Since earning his MFA in Photography from the State University of New York at Buffalo in 2006, his projects in photo, video, and installation have been exhibited widely, including; Galleri Image (Aarhus, Denmark), Gallery 44 (Toronto), Jen Bekman Projects (New York), Voies Off Photography Festival (Arles, France), and the International Symposium on Electronic Art (ISEA) (Albuquerque), among many others. In 2009 the New York Foundation for the Arts awarded him a fellowship in photography and in 2011 he received a Mary L. Nohl Fellowship from the Greater Milwaukee Foundation. Currently, Gindlesberger is Assistant Professor of Digital Imaging in the School of Visual Arts at Virginia Tech, a leading program in the intersection of arts and technology.
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