6. ARTIST STATEMENT
“I was born in 1982 in Budapest, Hungary. Originally I’m a jewellery designer,
later I discovered digital photo manipulation and it became my passion and main
activity. I like using ordinary elements and by combining them, I can give them
various stories, personalities. I hope that the meanings of my pictures are never
too limited, are open in some way, each viewer can transform them into a
personal aspect. I’m not so good at talking about myself, I prefer to let the
pictures talk.”
7. PRACTICE
Her works are dream-like, ethereal, highly polished and skilfully combined. Surprisingly, she shoots on
only a 5 mega pixel point and shoot camera. Using then only Photoshop, she works on a picture from a
few hours to a couple of days long, and uses up to 50-100 different layers for one picture. Ban uses
symbolism, angles, perspective, colour, texture to express themes of childhood, solitude and
consumerism among others.
http://www.saroltaban.com/
Define each of the underlined terms above.
Find a Ban work that is an example for each of the three themes listed above and explain
how the artwork demonstrates them, using the art terms.
