Nancy Hammermeister
bangaloREsident@1Shanthiroad

In Nancy Hammermeister's art, natural phenomena such as clouds, trees and volcanoes become symbols of human moods, emotional worlds and questions of existence.
Drawing is also understood through haptics, e.g. nail polish, window colour, chalk, oil paint can be used in a picture. She describes her approach as an impossible attempt to capture time.

Nancy Hammermeister studied at the HBK Braunschweig with Nicola Torke and Thomas Rentmeister, had a guest semester with Andrea Büttner at the Gutenberg University in Mainz and was a master student with Monika Brandmeier and Martin Honert at the HfbK Dresden. Where she still lives and works. She likes to work with her hands and to come into contact with things by feeling them. In this way, even a crumpled lump of clay can become a rose.

She calls her project idea for Bangalore "open your fingers and you understand the world". For her residency, she will be a guest at 1Shanthiroad Studio / Gallery. As a starting point, she would like to look for situations in the city where hands and their actions in everyday life find expression in ritual, religious, spiritual or repetitive behaviours: where do they appear, where do they disappear or are they replaced.

This residency is in partnership with the City of Dresden.