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Gesche Wuerfel
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Gesche Wuerfel is a visual artist whose practice is primarily photographic. Her interest lies primarily in the notion of place, the relationship humans have to space, and the methods employed for changing (in)habitable places. Her work is influenced by her training as a photographer and as an urban planner and by having lived in diverse settings – from rural to suburban to urban – across Europe and the United States. These experiences have given her a wealth of comparative and in-depth knowledge about spaces and developed her critical eye towards the politics of spatial developments.
Gesche Wuerfel was born in Bremerhaven, Germany, and currently lives and works in New York City and London. She received a B.S.+M.S. in Urban Planning from the Technical University of Dortmund, Germany, and an M.A. in Photography and Urban Cultures from Goldsmiths, University of London, UK. She has had recent solo exhibitions at Wolk Gallery, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge (2010); Civilian Art Projects, Washington, DC (2010); and Goldsmiths, London, UK (2009). Her work has been exhibited internationally and is in several public and private collections in Germany, Italy, the United Kingdom and the United States. A selection of images from her most recent series Basement Sanctuaries has been published as Story of the Week on the Foto8 website.
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