"Kissing is an exciting dialogue," says Gigga Hug. What happens between kissers, she shows in a kind of optical heartbeat frequency, which she has frozen at the moment of energy exchange - desire for all eternity! With fine and also coarser digital hatchings than in the series Bodylines I, the artist creates here background and foreground as well as a subtle aura that envelops the photographed and at the same time exposes them to the voyeuristic gaze. (Text: Tina Uhlmann)
Gigga Hug Work Experience and Education* 2008-Present Teacher of visual arts at academic high school Gymnasium Köniz Lerbermatt 2009 Visiting Artist in Prague, artist stipend through the Department of Culture of the City of Bern 2006-2008 Head of the Art Lab at the children’s museum Creaviva, Zen...
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