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Installation fantasist Ophelia Finke teams up with McQ this spring for a surreal Cronenburg-esque showcase.<\/p>\n

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Ophelia Finke\u2019s work is the Where\u2019s Wally of the grown-up art world. The Germany born, London based Saint Martins graduate creates otherworldly installations, where seemingly everyday scenes \u2013 surgeons performing operations, archaeologists on a dig, explorers\u2026 explorin\u2019 \u2013 are skewed with jarring, disturbing details. Like Hitchcock, spot Finke in the background of her scenes \u2013 guised as a cowboy hat toting doctor, in tribute to her MD father.<\/p>\n

Her newest project is a collaboration with McQ for their SS15 campaign. The shoot, photographed by Laurence Ellis, sees factory workers craft mutant, slime-coated wooden ornaments and battered motorbikes, all the while model Sunniva Wahl sports their sleekly androgynous line. Pointing into the distance in each shot, Finke chats to Wonderland here.<\/p>\n

Wonderland: Ophelia, when did you first get interested in art?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Ophelia:<\/strong> From as long as I can remember, my childhood room was chaotic and wild. That might have been art already. My mum is also an art historian and I remember going through her art books and beholding old paintings.<\/p>\n

W:<\/strong> Central Saint Martins has a great reputation, but how did tutors there react to, and nurture, your work?<\/p>\n

O:<\/strong> I was about to study medicine in Germany, but knew that I rather wanted to be an artist. I decided to send an application to Saint Martins because I knew it from Alexander McQueen. I saw his fashion shows and I knew that he had studied there. I sent some photographs in my email and I didn\u2019t think they would reply but they asked for more photos and I made a portfolio over night. Studying there was a great experience; I love the new campus and facilities. It\u2019s a temple of creativity. It showed me that I was on the right way.<\/p>\n

W:<\/strong> How did the collaboration with McQ come about?<\/p>\n

O:<\/strong> My friend, the photographer Laurence Ellis, who worked with them and also collaborated with me, introduced us.<\/p>\n

W:<\/strong> The set is like a Cronenburg scene, can you describe it succinctly?<\/p>\n

O:<\/strong> My installations are environments. They are clearly confined areas \u2013 you might call them wonderlands, with their own coherent systems. The colours white and beige are predominant in this installation; you can see a work in progress, materials and tools lying around and a group of assistants working in the background.<\/p>\n

W:<\/strong> It\u2019s quite a vision. Where did you get your ideas from?<\/p>\n

O:<\/strong> The main inspiration was the Italian city Carrera that is well known for its marble quarries. The white, beige colour scheme might resemble the stone, while the assistants and machines \u2013 but also it\u2019s unfinished \u2013 reminds me of a quarry.<\/p>\n

W:<\/strong> What is it that you are trying to express by featuring yourself in the shots?<\/p>\n

O:<\/strong> I think [it] opens up the piece and it becomes more accessible for the audience. I become one with the work, at the same time it is my signature. This is me wearing the coat and the cowboy hat, it\u2019s me being a piece of work. It started with the doctor\u2019s coats, as my dad was an inspiration for me wanting to become a doctor. I was always wearing his coat and dressing up like him as a child, dreaming of this heroic doctor. The cowboy hat is the next step into my own personality.<\/p>\n

W:<\/strong> Do you have an affinity with Alexander McQueen\u2019s playfully escapist work?<\/p>\n

O:<\/strong> Alexander McQueen was about creating these worlds \u2013 every show was a performance. I feel our work is quite similar. I had the option of freedom to create whatever I wanted to do and that\u2019s the way I really wanted to do it.<\/p>\n

W:<\/strong> How is London an inspiration-source for you?<\/p>\n

O:<\/strong> Darkness and never-ending rain. Melancholia is very important source of inspiration.<\/p>\n

W:<\/strong> The last question is a big one. Who are your favourite ever artists?<\/p>\n

O:<\/strong> I think that everyone is inspiring and everyone is an artist.<\/p>\n

Words:<\/strong> Millie Cotton.<\/p>\n

Photographer:<\/strong> Laurence Ellis.<\/p>\n

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