Katrin Salentin (*1980) studied Visual Communication and has lived in Berlin since 2010. Her work focuses on analogue and digital collages based on photographs from contemporary fashion catalogs as well as from what
unintentionally ends up in her mailbox: Advertising, magazines, newspapers – and dissects with a highly alert mind. Preferably female body parts and colour segments are scanned and thus digitized. In an associative creative process, the artist succumbs to the fascination of digital processing possibilities: Duplications, distortions, color changes. An enormous number of new fragments emerge from the original material. These interweave in countless layers. Although the body remains present, it increasingly dissolves into the full surface. It is never about the one finished end result – the digitally newly acquired individual parts are recycled and repeatedly modified for the next picture. Selected digital collages are returned to the analog world as an expression. Salentin creates compositions that oscillate in an exciting balance between attraction and irritation. Salentin has shown her work in numerous exhibitions in Germany. She is a member of the bbk berlin (professional association of visual artists) and the Verein Berliner Künstler (Association of Berlin Artists.)
