Born Farmington Hills, MI, 1987 / BS, Wayne State University / Lives in Detroit
“What is an artist? A provincial who finds himself somewhere between a physical reality and a metaphysical one…”
-Federico Fellini
Movement artist Rachael Harbert can be found dancing in that space between the lived and the dreamed. Propelled by nature, relationships, and other earthly things, she works in extremes that point to absurdities within the norm. Exaggerated gestures and surrealist imagery leap out from within her creations. Harbert’s body of work includes site-specific performances, installations, and stage presentations. Each confronts the viewer with urgent meditations on the human condition, and breathes into being the otherwise invisible, intangible, unsociable psyche.
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