The photography, a system of multiple realities,
Experimental Fine Art Photography, a Metaphor of Change
Photographing what has not yet been photographed is not interesting for me. It is exciting
to discover what photography can also be, to perceive its material, as a light image and
data image, a foil of an image perception.

The beauty of the world, its inherent formal order, makes me search for the formula of its
perfection. Is it the synergy of their inner order? Is it the irrational that is in every reality? I
would like to find out.

Just as different patterns of perception can arise through choreography in dance, as an
artist I can reconfigure the seemingly fixed worlds of a photographic reality. As an artist I
am free to think, act and follow my imagination.

My experimental photographic art is not dedicated to realistic reality. The result is a virtual
reality, so in possibility existing. It is my observation of the environment and a chance to
break up the routines of perception.

In order to gain new perspectives, it sometimes helps to destroy familiar ways of seeing in
the figurative sense, to think visually in processes, not in states. For me as an artist this
means, for example, that I am destroying a photographic image by transformation, that I
have previously taken. In other words, through a new algorithmic ordering structure, I
arrive at a new seeing and visual order. First of all, it is a search for the ideal of the formula
of an internal order. An inner order that holds everything together, that describes an ideal
whole.

We see in the result as experimental photographic art something that we could not
perceive in this order before. It is something that was already possibly included in digital
photography. Photography thus becomes shapeable matter. An algorithmic ordering
system that underlies digital photography as a grammar leaves a new constructive
substantive order through transformation.

Creatively following an artistic idea, I thus develop autonomous photographic images. My
artistic work can also be called conceptual work with photographic material. As a phantom
of light and a digital structure, photography becomes the carrier of a visual vision. Light
image simultaneously data image form the design of another possibility, a virtual reality in
a realistic reality.

At the beginning of my artistic career I examined the texture and the resulting possibilities
of a digital photography and searched for the ideal of the formula of its inner order, an
inner order that holds everything together, that describes an ideal whole. In the meantime,
I am mainly concerned with the principles of order of various types of landscape, including
both color landscapes, taken from nature also urban landscapes that surround me. Natural
spaces worthy of protection with their properties, these special places, their light and their
colors fascinate me again and again.

The chosen image carrier is always an artistic decision. It refers to the statement of the
picture. It can be a fine art print on Hahnemühlen paper, also aludibond, mat, or worked as
a tapestry on velvet.

Ursa Schoepper first completed her studies in Natural Science with state
examination. In addition she completed a study in cultural management,
state examinaten, with a concentration in fine arts, new media at Prof.
Dr.Eckart Pankoke, Prof. Dr. Ulrich Krempel, Prof Dr. Michael
Bockemühl.

In her Agency Virtuelle Denkraeume she designed and implemented
many projects for cultural educational institutions. In 2001 she was

awarded the Media Promotion Prize of the German state of North Rhine-
Westphalia for "Das Museum der abwesenden Bilder".

Since 2003 Ursa Schöpper has been working primarily as a
photographic artist. Her artwork has been exhibited internationally and
she is the recipient of notable awards. Her artworks are in interesting
collections, for example in the Museo Civico Giovanni Fattori ex Granai
de Villa Mimbelli and Fortezza Vecchia, Livorno, or the Helmholtz
Zentrum für Materialien und Energie Berlin, Berlin - Wannsee und Berlin
Adlershof. Ursa Schoepper lives and works in the Rhineland near Bonn.