Svenja Kratz – Intersections: The Real and The Imaginary

Overview

Science and art: seemingly so at odds, one precise and exact, objective and without emotion, the other fluid and transformative, subjective and celebrated as such. It seems they hardly see eye-to-eye, no trajectories that might cross paths. Until now.

Svenja Kratz, a contemporary artist hailing from Brisbane, has delved into the art of science, examining the incisions that can be made in both perspectives, so that they might piece together a little easier. In exhibition Intersections, she plays within the realms of opposition — the real and the imaginary, the balance of control and the depths of the human condition. So many people in far reaches of the globe have agreed to disagree on many of the facts upon which we extend our scientific discoveries and our artist endeavours, often disputing the idea of a universal truth.

Exact sciences are formulated by human hands, and truths proven by science have been done so with the human mind. Perhaps there is room to rethink, reconsider, reimagine the stability of our constructed world? Come see this exhibition and find out for yourself.