emotional #1 communication with a stranger // wax, steel, pvc and latex tubes, fabric, found objects, various connectors, liquid plastics and other // series 2026 This is Part 1 of emotional - a work series of constellative arrangements emerging from associative research and a body based artistic practice.
I read anatomy books and watch biology videos. My research into the biochemical functions of the body comes from a crazy fascination with its complex internal running system. Something that is always there, continuously happening within me but me tapping in the dark as well. I am learning about serotonin-releasing cells of the intestinal mucosa, folding amino acid chains, the shapes of inner workings of the kidney‘s filtration systems, the interconnections of neural pathways etc. An abstract knowledge, remaining unlocalized and disembodied.
My artistic practice for the series emotional attempts to translate this research into an associative, feeling-based language. Different materials, textures, objects and found objects form artificially constructed organic assemblages. A provisional harmony of independent things dreaming of circulation. A collection of beginnings and endings, inputs and outputs, linked together in chains of compositional associations. I imagined what a feeling would look like. Or what a machine would look like that produces a feeling.
The works connects theoretical knowledge of the body with a sensing artistic practice situated within a body, drawing on the micrological workings of internal bodily processes as an aesthetic resource.
