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Disconnectness

Disconnectness
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when
April 2, 2022 - May 1, 2022
where
EXbunker

In a novel „The Tell-Tale Heart‟(1843), a main character suffering from a schizophrenia shouts: “Didn’t I tell you that what you think is madness is actually a hypersensitivity of emotions?” 

Sensory changes are particularly prominent in the early stages of schizophrenia. For example, the main character experienced sharpened hearing. However, visual changes are more common than auditory changes. A patient depicts: 

“Now the color looks brighter. It’s like fluorescent paint. You can’t tell if things are solid or liquid. I’m not a very artistic person, but I think I’m more sensitive to color. Everything looks lively. Especially red.” 

I found this narrative very interesting because it was exactly what I went through when I had a severe depression a few years ago. And it was the starting point of my colour and pattern research. 

Sometimes 

Disconnectness

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Current exhibition

This exhibition is closed. This is showing at EXbunker now:

cat elfrink: work in progress. EXbunker. Open 5 sep 16-20u. 5-27 sep. Wilhelminapark 24A Utrecht.
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Sep 5

Sep 27

Werk in uitvoering

Cat Elfrink

For the past year I’ve started viewing my workspace more and more as the work itself, placing the process of working and play at the center. The surprises I encounter when I focus on the process instead of the result. The discovery instead of the conclusion. The work ‘work in progress’ uses the skip container as a starting point to explore value and desires in creating.In the EXbunker, a situation develops where the content remains changeable and the action keeps changing. Using scrap wood and objects found on the street that previously held a different purpose, I work on a space that holds balance between function and form. Everything that’s in the space is used to make the space. Here, inventive, coincidental or awkward connections continuously play a different role. Where does the act end and the work begin? Or can these two terms coexist in the same sense of the word?

where

Wilhelminapark 24A
3581 NE Utrecht