Lady Kunst
Art is identity
Lady Kunst’s work is characterized by its ability to subtly evoke emotions in viewers, often without their immediate awareness.
The impact of representational art, surrealism, and socially aware photography is evident, yielding images that encourage contemplation on the human experience and our bond with ourselves and our surroundings.
Her compositions incorporate everyday objects to challenge our perception of the reality around us. One senses an exploration of deep themes, such as self-perception, life, and death, within the context of the human experience and its transitions.
She uses the timer trigger of the camera, which is set to 10 seconds. This creates a symbiotic relationship between the camera and the human being, between the observer and the observed. She finds everyday objects that might otherwise go unnoticed and uses them to explore our perception of the world around us. This creative process is the foundation for the final outcome of her work.
For Lady Kunst, life is a performance in which we are all protagonists.
She has cited the works of artists such as David Lynch, Lars von Trier, and Peter Doig, as well as the pop art style, as sources of inspiration, noting the use of vibrant colours and commercial materials in the latter. The artistâs aim, it seems, is to use photography to convey stories that provoke emotions and address social problems.
Lady Kunst
Jacqueline Delaye has a multidisciplinary background based in social studies and arts. She studied Social Anthropology in Mexico city. Cinema and Tv in Barcelona and Art and Culture Management in Paris. She worked as a video artist and documentary filmmaker around Europe.
After living in different countries like USA, England, France, Spain, Italy Portugal and MĂ©xico Jacqueline moved to Berlin, Germany her home since 15 years.
in 2019 she moved for 4 years to the archipelago Azores, on the island of Sao Miguel, in order to take the inspiration of nature. Now she came back to the great city of Berlin to keep breathing the inspiration of human society.
I started in the art world when I was 19 years old. I had already taken photography courses and I was amazed by the visual and social part of the city where I lived, Mexico City, full of contrasts in both socioeconomic and visual aspects. I wanted to show the world the reality in which the lower class of Mexicans live, a place between hope and death. For this reason I decided to take the camera as my means of expression. I had the opportunity to work in different commercial audiovisual productions (advertising, independent films).
At the age of 21, I went to the city of Barcelona to do my audiovisual studies where I had the opportunity to be inspired by the best independent filmmakers and artistic currents. My work is a mixture of apathy, courage and desperation. In order better represent the political issues of the society, I had created the fictional figure of Lady Kunst.
For me life is a film in which we are all protagonists.
My work focuses on political, social and commercial aspects. As a Mexican, I could not close my eyes to social injustices and corruption, especially in the area of politics.
