Donna Volta Newmen
Considering ‘the self’ as an assemblage of many, Newmen’s practice revolves around the embodiment and exploration of various personas through modes of printmaking, painting, video and performance.
Based on Eduardo Kohn’s concept of ‘sylvan thinking’ – a domain of thought involving animals, plants, and spirits – her practice follows an ecological imagination that seeks to create with and through other entities.
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Donna Volta Newmen is a berlin-based visual artist. In her works, Newmen negotiates neo-materialistic relationships between human and non-human characters. Drawing on shades of blue as color, symbol, and conceptual theme, her practice combines printmaking, painting, and performance elements. Newmen studied at the intersection of art, performance, and critical theory and completed her master’s degree at Sandberg Institute Amsterdam in 2019.