Drawings:
The drawings, begun in 2004 are part of an ongoing body of work is based on extracted and manipulated graphics and texts from 1940's and 1950's photographic guide books and educational materials.
Optical sculptures/photographic works:
Rebecca Hackemann's pieces stretch the definition of fine art photography as language and formally as flat image on a wall. Photography and sculpture are combined into “photo based” work or optical sculptures that humorously address contemporary political and societal issues as well as language and how it's meaning is constructed. The work most often consists of an installation of handwritten text on the walls as we well as hung white boxes, which the viewer peers into through 2 lensed peepholes. Ms. Hackemann makes flying objects and staged sets to be photographed in black and white (on film), the (silver gelatin) prints of which then reside inside the sculptures. Inside these optical sculptures are stereoscopic black and white constructed photographs of a fictional world with text. By looking through the lenses the viewer sees the images in 3-D– thus the sculpture acts as both a stereo viewer and a conceptual container with it’s own inscriptions.
