Keri Rosebraugh // USA, France
BIOGRAPHY:
Keri seeks to find connections between man and nature, exploring how humans and the environment affect each other. Her artwork explores human’s quest for comfort versus our need for mankind to live mindfully on this earth. Her practice is based on the exchange of ideas and resources, sometimes with direct participation of people as possible vehicles for social change. Her work nurtures a discourse on human existence as a whole, its kinship to systems of control, time, and nature. Through painting, sculpture, video, and installation, Rosebraugh’s creations attempt to transcend the ruins of the past and the wounds of the present, by offering a context that facilitates the analysis of our responsibility and needs in a future unknown.
https://www.kerirosebraugh.com
ARTIST STATEMENT ON PROCESS:
Looking back on the 6 months of this residency, the “process” was clearly the catalyst for new ideas, new methods and new conclusions; hence, it was the most intregal component to the outcome of my project. What began as a broad inquiry into the space between humans and the environment gradually shifted, through repeated dérives, into something more personal: how the stories I carry—past experiences, half-remembered moments, and sensory traces—shape the way I see and respond to nature today.
Each dérive opened a new portal of thinking, revealing that a single walk holds countless possible narratives, just as a cloud can be painted in endless ways. These encounters led me toward unexpected materials — antique books, sheeps’ wool, corn, snail shells, and other objects gathered from the dérive and our lab discussions. Their presence introduced their own histories into the work, allowing memory to surface not only through ideas, but through the physicality of materials themselves.
Our shared conversations, experiments, and evolving methods created a space where individual projects began to influence and expand one another. This exchange pushed my work beyond its original parameters, revealing connections I would not have reached alone.
I feel like our time together marks the beginning of a continuing inquiry—one where memory, material, and collaboration remain central to how I understand and create work.