Young Artist of the Week: Zoe Jaremus, on female forms and farms

Touted as a modern day Caspar David Friedrich, with her most recent series evoking the starkly existential image of individuals lost amidst barren natural landscapes, this Concordia MFA candidate has a knack for photography in its purest form. Jaremus populates the space of expansive and imposing natural compositions with under-dressed and ill-equipped young women whose blank, eerily unperturbed and, seemingly at times, even possessed expressions and physical dispositions speak volumes about humans, nature and human nature. A focus on lone female subjects, at once helplessly objectified and defiantely self-assertive,  and beautiful yet impending natural settings prevail in her striking work.

Zoe Jaremus, Somewhere to Hide, 2011, Chromogenic Print, 38" x 38"

My current obsession :
Audiobooks

My favourite place :

Can everyone make art?

Something timeless :
Fairytales

Most overrated artist :
Damien Hirst (And even saying that, there are still things he's done that I like)

Most underrated artist :
Erwin Wurm (not sure if he's that underrated, but he's one of my favourites)

I wish I knew :

I wish I didn't know :
What's next (ha!)

Art and the internet : Two peas in a pod or unlikely bedfellows?

Zoe Jaremus, Untitled (Ice Lake), 2011, Chromogenic Print, 38" x 38"

One day with a historical figure : who do you choose and what do you do?

Can art go too far?

Best place to see art in Montreal :
Belgo Building

My strength :

My weakness :

Best new trend in art :

Most inspiring aspect of Montreal :

(My) Art is :
Something that gets me through the day

Words to live by :

Zoe Jaremus, Ice Rocks, 2011, Chromogenic Print, 38" x 38"

Zoe Jaremus' Into the Wild series is on display as part of Collision 7 until April 9