Your name
Red Rubber Road (AnaHell and Nathalie Dreier)
Place of birth
Geneva, Switzerland/Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
Place where you live now
Zürich, Switzerland/Berlin, Germany
3 words to describe you
Anonymous flesh illusion
Why do you take pictures?
To create, recreate and deconstruct reality
Where do you get your inspiration?
We get a lot of our inspiration from each other and from our interactions and relationships with our environment, our bodies and other human beings.
Who are your influences?
The things and people in life that taught us to embrace the absurd.
What determines the subject matter you choose?
As a duo, we mainly take self-portraits together and the themes we choose are influenced by our own upbringing and our way of adapting to our immediate surroundings and circumstances. We like the spontaneity of using our own bodies to create momentary narratives and interact and connect with each other and the world around us.
What impact would you like your art to have?
We hope to stain the mundane with a hallucinatory hint and explore how a change in perspective can transform one's view of reality.
What artwork do you never get bored with?
Music to play in the dark
Is there anything you want to add?
What you see is what you see is never what you see.

Nomader
Project statement

In the self-portrait series Nomader, artist duo Red Rubber Road (AnaHell and Nathalie Dreier) use their bodies to explore the themes of identity and belonging and the feelings of connection and alienation that they experienced in their nomadic upbringing. In these performative images, the artists depict themselves falling into and merging with the surrounding landscapes, representing the nuances of feeling both rooted and rootless as they temporarily integrate into new spaces.

With this ongoing series shot in landscapes around the world, the artists reflect on how nature can provide a sense of grounding and belonging for those who struggle to find a place to call home.

See more by Red Rubber Road in A Visual Dialogue in issue #8 and in collab:co-op in issue #9

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