Imaginary Perceptions

Maaike Anne Stevens

27 Aug 2011

Maaike Anne Stevens lives in London and is doing a Master of Fine Arts at Goldsmiths College. In her soloshow Imaginary Perceptions she will show her most recent work.

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Imaginary Perceptions - By Maaike Stevens, found on her website. This image was used for an article about 'Imaginary Perceptions', an exhibition by Maaike Stevens at Artpocalypse Collective Amsterdam.

Every day man is confronted with different kinds of information. This information is structured by our brain. One could say there are two worlds: the world outside and the idea of the world outside in our heads. Maaike tries to research the tension between these two worlds in her work. “I am interested in this state of visual confusion, in which things have a certain form before the brain structures them into logical and useful information.”

In Maaike’s work elements which are part of our perception like light, shadow, volume, texture, colour and movement are still maintained but she changed their sequence and hierarchy. “How would the loss of visual logic influence our lifes, when visual stimuli in the form of pure chaos excite our brains?”

Opening

Saturday August 27th from 4pm on at Artpocalypse Collective

More info to be found on the Artpocalypse website