Amelie Schlaeffer (b. 1999) is a visual artist living and working in London. Her practice revolves around paradoxes emerging in the digital age, reiterated and grasped through relating them back to analog objects and mechanisms.
With an education in both Computing and Fine Art at Central Saint Martins, her work intends to make sense of a lived experience where digital life and physical reality have begun bleeding into each other. Where matter imitates traits of technology, and vice versa, but the separation between the two has to be made increasingly palpable. Personal experience becomes intertwined with the internet’s collective consciousness, along with its mystical ways of being first a mirror, and then a perpetuator of desire.
Through a multi-media approach including coding and installation, her works often take symbolic forms of digital structures, appropriated as physical material.
She has recently shown work at Belvedere 21 Museum (Vienna), Usual Business Gallery (London) as well as MUD Foundation (Miami) with funding from the Knight Foundation and US National Endowment for the Arts.