Theurer
Carla

Carla Theurer, is a German and Swiss designer and visual artist based in London. Her practice takes many forms, including photography and print media to single and multi-channel video works and interactive installations. Carla’s works delve into contemporary culture, including social change in modernity and the evolving nature of the image.

After studying Visual Communication at the University of Technology, Business and Design in Konstanz, Germany, she worked as a graphic designer and art director for a couple of years. In 2019 she started her Masters in Information Experience Design at the Royal College of Art in London to further develop her interest in new media technologies, large-scale installations, immersive digital experiences and moving image. A creative practice of intervening in, designing and generating experiences of complexity that communicate human, nonhuman and more-than-human perspectives and realities. 

Throughout the Master's, she developed a deep understanding of critical and experimental media production, creation and design practice. Hence the core aim of my work is to experiment with a diversity of methods and approaches that cross boundaries between digital and analogue. Creating compelling multi-media experiences combining the creative potential of new technologies with the advantages of established media formats, transforming information into a narrative experience to challenge, inspire and immerse audiences.

Her recent projects have been questioning the perception of the everyday by exploring the screen as an idea and an experience. In her works, she isolates objects, experiences, and events, reexamining their relationships with one another and their surrounding environment. Her visuals are a captivating representation of everyday life, featuring ordinary and mundane subjects yet rendered in a contemplative and seductive manner. Carla Theurer’s manipulation of time, scale, movement and materiality of the image gives her work a unique perspective and encourages the viewer to explore the layers of meaning and question their own perception of reality.