Aurora Berger

Statement

Working within the frameworks of capacity and disability, I use photographs to examine and reclaim my own identity. As a physically and visually disabled artist, my work is a reflection of how I see the world. Cumulatively, my work creates an expansive self-portrait. Some images are literal—photographs of my physical body, pictures of my life. Others build on environmental cues that place the viewer in my position through fragmented imagery and visual confrontation. The works investigate the concepts of normalcy, disability, agency, visual acuity, and interpretation. My work is about existing in the body that I have, in the life that I am living. It is about inhabiting spaces, perceiving surroundings, and above all, the process of survival.

Disability Information: Marfan Syndrome & Comorbidities

Bleeding Out Knotted Submerged MRI with Contrast

Bleeding Out
2018
digital photograph

Knotted
2018
digital photograph
Submerged
2018
digital photograph
MRI With Contrast
2018
digital photograph

Reclamation Remnants of the Medical Industrial Complex Vulnerable (diptych) Restless
Reclamation
2018
digital photograph
Remnants from the Medical Industrial Complex
2018
archival pigment prints
105" x 140"

Vulnerable (diptych)
2018
cyanotypes
30" x 49"
Restless
2020
cyanotype
6" x 8"