| Jaqueline Vanek | Fe-ma-le |
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| You were born in Austria but then decided to move to Spain, how come? Good question, often ask myself the same. I better should ask my parents again, they decided to move over when I was 11 years old, maybe a bit younger. They divorced when I was 3 years old and my dad moved to Spain while I stayed with my mom in Austria, in some way maybe my dad convinced my mom to come over and got me near. Where does your interest for the body come from? The body has been always an important element in conceptual photography and performance since ending the fifties, specialy in the seventies. It's the most expressive element you can use to express feelings and get an impact into human minds. The human body is something beautiful and exciting, full of photographic possibilities. In terms of percentage how do you split your time between production and postproduction... Do you spend more time with your camera or trying photoshop? Well, I often get angry with myself when I think about this theme. I absolutly should spend more time with production than postproduction, but I am more impulsive and spontaneous than calculating and strict. Trying and passing time with photoshop would be a 70% or 80%. Your portraits of men are more statuary and static than your pcitures of women: do you think there is a reason for that? If you ask this becouse of the "Cruise" series on my website, that was what I was looking for (commissioned series for a Gay Bar). In general I don't have a lot of men's portraits, this got no special reason, I just prefer working with a female body, most of the times with my own one. Is there a man or a woman that you would like to portray if you had a chance to ask her/him? Of course there are, a lot indeed. Would love to portray Cate Blanchett, Kate Moss, Lily Cole, Gemma Ward, Eva Riccobono, Jessica Stam... females with special or particular faces. What man belongs, well, Milo Ventimiglia, Chad White... hmmm non particular. Everyone with a mysterious aura, a rare or odd presence and an unusual look. Your “dream” pictures seem indebted with Surrealism, but some sort of narrative is sneaking through.. Is there a filmic imagery at work as well? Indeed there is a story behind that series. It's me running throught a dream I had one day about time and wishes (dreams everyone got in his life). Those dreams are symbolized in balloons, as easy to break and disappear as our desires. The whole world, our world, my world, turns round and remains alone between shadows where no balloon is left and hope is gone. What is your favourite recent movie? Recent? Hmmm... let me think, I didn't watch recently movies at the cinema, my last one was Sweeney Todd. Most of the time I watch old movies, my favourite one is Billy Wylder's "The Apartment", but in fact I love Tim Burton's photography and postproduction, very inspiring.  Jaqueline Vanek was born in Villach (Kärnten - Austria) on August 1984. The above interview was made for postmedia.net by Gianni Romano on April 2008.
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