Judith Samen’s art navigates the space between staging and the authenticity of human existence. In her work, she draws on physicality, food, and elements from art history and everyday life. In her search for unseen and moving visual creations, she crafts works that straddle the line between poetry and the dramatic. She combines vulnerability and humor, transience and deep bodily sensation with tragedy and comedy. In the process, the seemingly familiar expands into the absurd. Her artistic strategy employs disorientation as a means to openly challenge viewers. Her works are shaped by the female experience of the body. Her self-portraits—some of which are radical—build upon the work of artists such as Claude Cahun, John Coplans, and Rodney Graham. In the tradition of the Fluxus movement, Judith Samen blurs the boundaries between art and everyday life. To this end, she draws on photography’s ability to represent reality. Her body of work includes photographs, spatial installations, drawings, videos, and performative acts.