My artistic practice combines drawing, photography, and installation, focusing on the fragile relationship between humans, matter, and their images. Rooted in the traditions of still life and assemblage, I create compositions—both individually and collaboratively—that seek situations which shift perspectives, and open new ways of seeing and relating to the material world.
Therefore, I also view my practice as an ecological one: a process of building bridges and forming relationships between places, people, form, minerals, materials, technology and between action and consequence.

Rhythm, repetition, and nesting are fundamental principles in my compositions. Existing images find new life within larger compositions, structures, and patterns. This nesting shapes the deeper architecture of the work, allowing multiple voices to resonate across shifts in scale—a composition within a composition, and another inside that.


CONTACT & LINKS

stephaniestern@pm.me

Archaeology of Image Technologies:  On my Mastodon profile,I share insights from my ongoing inquiry into the material foundations of digital images — from raw minerals and early lithography and photography to highly functional materials and extreme ultraviolet (EUV) technology.

In addition, I look at how image techniques have developed and travelled across different cultures and places over time. I engage with experimental educational formats as a way of reclaiming technological and material knowledge, and of addressing awareness in the use of our everyday devices.

TEXTS:

2024   Verborgene Strukturen by Bettina Spörr
2020  Mimicry and the Translation of Forms by Anthony Iles