Sabrina Basten, installation art

physical intelligence 
My work exists of an visual-spatial research in which the principle of physical intelligence stands central, in other words, the relation between the physical and mental interpretation of a space. This research exists in space filling installations. by using tactile and visual interventions, i want to strengthen the spatial consciousness of the viewer , which addresses not only the senses but the reason.
Breaking through the separation between body and mind, such as those still frequently existing in the visual arts or other areas in the cultural production , consciously or unconsciously, has been a returning point in my work. To speak in Deleuzian terms, in my research i have the extreme will and desire to develop a deterritorializing movement. In my opinion, introducing a separation between form and content, is likewise a separation between body and mind, and it impedes an uninhibited reception, a substantial perception, of the visual arts.
This artificial separation impedes an unbiased traveling through a piece of art, a nomadic interpretation of connections, the experience of a rhizomatic identity: continuously growing, continuously open, searching for other identities, not from out one fixed point, but consciously developing from out a multiplicity of location, based on the fact of more identities.






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