Welcome to the Bunker Questionnaire, a series in which we ask Bunker Projects residents and exhibiting artists a few questions based on Marcel Proust’s famous Proust Questionnaire, a survey that purported to reveal a person’s true nature. We hope their answers and the accompanying photos allow you to get to know them and their work a little bit more.
Baillie Vensel is a lens-based artist based in Brooklyn, NY. Her long-form research projects employ appropriation and montage to pose questions about the role of images in the formation of identity, subjectivity and power. By pushing images through layers of mediation using an arsenal of image technologies—from 35mm film to Video 8; screenshot to cheap laser print to scan; from Instagram to CRT Monitor—the resulting images are often textural and abstract, displacing the viewer in space and time. Vensel received an MFA in photography from Pratt Institute in 2023. Her work has exhibited throughout New York City with Project Art Distribution since 2018, and at artist-run spaces in Chicago, Massachusetts and Prague, Czech Republic.
Who are your favorite artists/the ones who’ve influenced you most?
“Gretchen Bender, Adam Curtis, Alex Da Corte, Nina Hartman, Talia Chetrit.”
Where do you go or what do you do when you need inspiration to recharge
“To the movies, preferably alone, armed with empanadas.”
What’s the best creative advice you’ve received?
“Being an artist is an honor and a privilege, and even though it’s hard, we’re very lucky to be able to do it.”
Photography by Anna Brewer
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