Rebeca Fontaine-Wolf

Rebecca Fontaine-Wolf (born in Australia) is an interdisciplinary artist and curator who grew up between Germany and the UK and is currently living between London and Lisbon. She is a co-founder and director of Infems: Intersectional Feminist Art Collective and former vice president to the Society of Women Artists (UK). 

Rebecca Fontaine-Wolf works primarily with mirrors and self-portraiture in order to explore her experiences of womanhood in a digital age: the visceral realities as well as their societal implications.

Fontaine-Wolf integrates self-portraiture to explore her own experience of the human condition, bringing a quality of intimacy to her work. The nature of the images created however -  faceless, distorted and almost otherworldly - allows for these images to extend outwards from the purely personal into the realm of the archetypal. 

The use of mirrors in composing the images draws on Fontaine-Wolf’s ongoing interest in Vanitas symbolism and Lacanian mirror theory, whilst also referencing her interest in mysticism and the occult. The reflections of the segmented body explore contemporary concerns with self-image and digital representation, which can lead us to feel a deep sense of fragmentation in much the same way as mirror-gazing can have a  dissociative effect on our sense of identity.

She uses physi-digital processes to reflect these interests. Traditional media and techniques are used alongside digital and experimental uses of materials. These continually feed back into each other creating multiple layers. A process of creation and destruction, using both chance and control.