AFFECTIVE ATMOSPHERES
In this show we each respond to the concept of Affective Atmospheres, a term first coined by cultural theorist Tom Anderson to represent the type of emotion that occurs between people, other living things, objects, ideas rather than inside the individual.
These emotional relations, always fluid, emergent, challenge the binary between subjective and objective and in the end form an atmosphere that is called culture. Each of the 4 artists in this show are concerned with culture and emotion; culture in terms of their familial and aesthetic background, but also in capturing the affective atmosphere, as it moves, and moves the artist on the canvas.
Our aim is for expressionism in momentary place, emotion in context, capturing the atmospheres around us.