Nancy Burson

(Saint Louis, USA, 1948)

Digital artist and photographer in her works asks about the plasticity of the human face and challenges us to reconsider our perceptions, the concepts of normality and abnormality, beauty or ugliness. His works have a didactic intention and show the instability of one's own identity and the migration towards otherness, provocatively raising questions about the perception of identity and establishing a metaphor between the individual and the generic. In his photographs, he uses digital technologies to create his composites, computer-imposed images. Design machines together with engineers from institutions such as MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) to apply standard physiological change patterns and transcend the world of appearances. The Aging Machine allows the transformation of the face over time from a digitized portrait. The Human Race Machine is a tool that allows you to explore issues of race and ethnicity, the face of whoever is placed in it is altered by changing facial features.
He/She images provide a guessing game for which there is no correct answer. Burson's photographs demonstrate the fluidity of gender and suggest that we can all have alternative gender identities.

In Medialabmadrid he presented a retrospective of his works in the framework of collaboration with PhotoEspaña 03 under the heading “NosOtros: Identidad y alteridad”.