This “mixed media” installation is a play on a metaphysical approach to art as an alternative to the

 

physical. It came to live with a curiosity towards perceptions of and responses to art carried by emotional intelligence.     

 

 

11 squares (affairs) of plaster have each been marked by a transferprint offering textual information on a unique artwork of

 

varying medium. As such the affairs, alone unsensational, should be perceived merely as surfaces on which the

 

metaphysical state of an artwork available.

 

 

The work is created, as an effort to investigate one side of the question regarding at which state an artwork is most real,

 

true, valuable, beautiful or relevant.  - in this case the side of metaphysics. Further it confronts cognition and related

 

understandings of rational and emotional intelligence. The question is; through which mode is an artwork most relatable,

 

compelling, awarding, beautiful or relevant?     

 

 

Simply out, we ask: Could information on an artwork delivered to our brain through language be as emotional relevant as

 

physical information of the same artwork perceptible for our bodily senses.

 

 

Affair is made in collaboration with Amanda Lydért as a continuation of themes explored and material created in the

 

previous project Colonial Fact.

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Various size