Birthe Piontek is originally from Germany but moved to Canada in 2005 after receiving her MFA from the University of Essen in Communication Design and Photography.
In her series ‘Mimesis’, Piontek continues an exploration of the self and the human quest for identity. "As any look in the mirror, photograph taken or portrait painted only offers a small glimpse of a being, images merely serve as a representation of the original. But what is the reality of the self? With Mimesis I create a fictional world of representation that mediates our relationship to reality. I appropriate, change and reinterpret the original representations, in an effort to invite the viewer to look beyond the surface."
