South-African born artist Gretta Louw grew up in Australia, since living in Japan and New Zealand before settling in Berlin, where she has lived and worked since 2007. Her art practice incorporates performance elements in installations of photography and projections, as well as drawing, and focuses on the Unconscious and other aspects of human psychology. Recent photographic installations have referenced early twentieth century psychoanalysts, particularly Hermann Rorschach, who developed the widely used and highly influential Rorschach Inkblot Test of personality and psychological functioning.
The work takes established psychological principles and tests them within a fine art context, using the art practice as a means of psychological study.

1. Das Tintenklecks Experiment - Self Portraits (detail shown as animated gif), 2009.
2. Das Tintenklecks Experiment - Self Portraits (still from digital projection), 2009.
3. Mangel (Deficiency) (projection still), 2010
4. Untitled (Stitched) (detail), graphite drawing on transparent paper, with stitching, 2010.

3_Mangel projection still