Nat Urazmetova is a London-based visual artist who integrates the cross-disciplinary approach and lens media in her work.
As well as producing documentary photographic work and artist films, Nat is collaborating with musicians, sound designers and dancers on live audio-visual performances. Her work appeared at Modern Art Oxford, Musikinstrumenten Museum Berlin, Centre for Contemporary Arts Glasgow, LWL-Museum für Kunst und Kultur Münster. Nat participated in international exhibitions, competitions and festivals: Urbanscapes Malaysia, Athens Photo Festival, European Media Art Festival Germany, Copenhagen Photo Festival, Kolga Photo Tbilisi Photo, Garage Art Experiment, Bar-Tur Photography Award, Fotofest, Fotofreo, Neu/Now, Photomonth.
In her personal artistic work Nat is exploring the possibilities of representing non-linearity, rhizomatic, decentralised and dislocated perception, and enquiring into alternative and intra life forms, biological matter and environment.
Clients and collaborators include: Action Film, Aldeburgh Music, Afisha Industries, Artchronika, Audley Travel, Azure Vista Records, Barclaycard, Billboard, Block9, The Brand Union, Bureau B, Calvert 22 Foundation, Cygnnet Publishing, Domino Records, Empire Magazine, Eventica, EYESONTHEWALL, Flock Music, Leo Burnett, Kunstraum, Millennium Images, Pedigree Cuts, rAndom International, Rough Trade, Roundhouse Trust, Russian Art & Culture, SDNA Ltd, SOME/THINGS, Virgin Atlantic.
Projects
- POLYMORPHIAThe series ‘Polymorphia’ explores the possibilities of blurring the boundaries of the natural and the artificial and synthesising the chimerical, multicomponent, abstracted form of matter. Using fiction as method and the crystals found in the earth’s crust as the source material, the photographic assemblages transfigure the perception of materiality, introduce the new temporality and suggest the possible ways to look at hybridization of physical and digital media. The multiple layers of history
- 'The Persimmon's Fruit' photobookThe Persimmon’s Fruit is an intimate photographic essay by Nat Urazmetova. Depicting the author’s journey to Japan, it seeks the new sensibilities and subtler connections. Documentary yet also introspective, the photographs seize and transmit the concealed rhythms and delicate emotions. It is an assemblage of the subjective observations about the essence of Japanese culture, altogether creating a poetic story that enfolds both the stillness of a photographic image and the transitory, time-wrapping, nature of cinema. It is also a visual reflection on the concepts of ‘traces’ (omokage) and ‘changeability’ (utsuroi) found in the works by Seigow Matsuoka. ‘The traces quiver, their shapes altered by the circumstances under which they are resurrected. That is the nature of traces of Japan. They are not static… The images that strike us as somehow ‘Japanese’ reveal that quality only in fleeting traces’. Rather than attempting to arrive at something descriptive and concrete, the series is instead trailing the elusive atmosphere, accentuating the beauty in imperfections and incompleteness, through light and shadow, contours and fragments, whispers and feelings. Title: ‘The Persimmon’s Fruit’ Artist: Nat Urazmetova Designer: Fujiwara Nobutaka Editors: Anastasija Nikitina & Nat Urazmetova Imprint: Cygnnet Printer: Kopa, Kaunas, Lithuania Publication date and place: May 2016 / London, United Kingdom Edition: 250 Format, binding: Hardcover / Casewrap Size: 16,5x23,2cm Number of pages and images: 120 pages / 78 images Type of printing and paper: Offset / Munken Lynx paper, 170gsm ISBN: 9780957041653
- 'Crosspoint' Live AVThe new live visual performance ‘Crosspoint’ created in response to Ulrich Schnauss soundscapes, is based on the ideas of the rhizomatic, decentralised and re-configured perception. At the thematic core of the performance is the formation of bio-structures and hypothetical visualisation of the wrapped space, failed algorithms, alternative and intra life forms. The ecological and artificial, extra-terrestrial and underwater, simulated and synthesised, amorphous and elusive coalesce and evolve in the free-flow of improvisation. Unfolding alongside with the sonic counterpart, the visual performance seeks to defy the accustomed modes of perception and points instead to the different narratives of seeing, sensing and relating to the surroundings.
- UNSTITCHUNSTITCH is an AV / dance project which explores a crossing point between wildness and human individuality. Driven by the unconscious signals and primordial anxieties, the body seeks unification with the self, the nature, and the other. The desire to discover and the sense of fear are inseparable; when the body pushes itself to the limits, to the very edge of its potential, it crosses the marginal line between self-awareness and perception of the other. Through the tantalising yet savage and unfamiliar realm of nature, a temporary and ever-shifting fusion of the opposites is born. Haunting surroundings act as instinctive forces; the body embraces its struggles, its unspoken needs and desires. Performers EMMA LOUVELLE & TEEBO NEVEUX Sound by ANA ROMAN & TAKATSUNA MUKAI Directed, Filmed & Edited by NAT URAZMETOVA © 2015
Skills
- Photography
- Photoshop
- Videography
- Camera Operation
- Adobe Premiere Pro
- Cinematography
- Vjing
- Live Performance
- Music Videos
- Art Writing
Education
MA in Digital Media: Technology and the Cultural FormGoldsmiths, University of London
- London, United Kingdom
BA (Hons) PhotographyUniversity of The Arts London (UAL)
- London, United Kingdom
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