Sabina Keric

Critique of Urban Camouflage- Sabina Keric

       Sabina Keric is a German artist/designer who takes many different types of photos including urban camouflage. She became an artist/designer in October 2011, before she became an artist she had to go through many years of schooling and workshops. Sabina received her degree in June 2011 for communications and design from Karlsruhe University of art and design. She had about 8 years of schooling in total to graduate with her design degree. Over the years she has became very successful and received 3 awards and counting, one of her awards was the international stickeraward! A lot of her work is put up in museums and displayed in workshops; the most popular museum her work was shown in was a German museum called, "Museum fur Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg". She is a pretty famous German artist, plus, she has many biography's about her. She has come along way with her accomplishments.

       Sabina has produced many different types of art. One of her most popular ones is urban camouflage. Urban camouflage is a type of artwork where you try and make someone or something blend in with it's surroundings. Sabina thinks of it as "how you can camouflage oneself and one's identity in commercial space." Most of her projects and ideas of urban camouflage take place in stores or public places, I think this is because she wants to prove to you that one can hide in plain site. She has many different types of urban camouflage and I will post my favorites below. Sabina works with her friends (who are other designers/artists) to establish these amazing pieces of artwork.

       Sabina's second most popular type of artistic work is phantom shots. She uses phantom shots to represent symbols and events that take place in the military. She makes her shots vivid and pop out because it helps you visualize the "strong fusion" and reality of war. One thing that people have commented on her blog is that her war pictures have so much emotion and warming feelings behind them without showing gore and gruesome pictures. All of her examples are great but my favorite would have to be this one where there are two water bottles filled with mysteries liquid and connected to an electric machine, I like it because you have to make an inference on what you think it means. I guessed it represented a bomb from war. A cool and unique thing about these is the fact you have to step out of the box to try to figure out what they represent.

      Sabina Keric has an influence on many peoples art projects and photography. Her phantom shots really influence iraq soldiers and other veterans. They influence them because they are based on the war. She influences me in a way because all her art is unique and not many people would think of that idea. Her  ideas are so neat because she can use art to scare people and shock people. Sabina puts a lot of effort into her work and it seems like it would take a lot of patience and time to do. I think that her camouflage could have a bit of an impact saying that you can blend in wherever you want as long as you change who you are. When I do my camoflague project I will do something related to hers because her work is neat.

       I have lot's of opinions on her camouflage work. My strongest is opinion is that it has such a strong representation of being able to blend in with anything you put your mind too. I really love how she uses real objects to camouflage people, she strings along objects like costumes. Her camouflage ideas are very unique because she scares people while testing out the costumes. I love how all of her ideas work well and you can hardly even tell it's a person. One thing I would change is maybe visit other places instead of department stores, she could maybe go to a petstore or some other place. One day I would love to try that in a store and see how many people fall for it and get scared. Sabina Keric is very talented.