Nomadic Borderlands
We all have a body; this is obvious. Our lives are structured by our body: When we are hungry - we eat, when we are cold - we cover up, when we are tired - we sleep, and yet how do we actually understand our relationship with our body? Is our body more than these physical indicators? Does our body extend past this physical form? What role does our body play in the understanding of our identity? Do we have only one body or do we create multiple bodies for ourselves? Where does our body end and our environment begin?
In Postmodern thought Nomadic Borderlands refers to the undefined space between what we know as our reality and the “outside” (that which we do not know yet brushes with and influences our experiences). They are nomadic because the boundaries of this space is always moving and changing as the fuzzy edges of our own existence brushes with the fuzzy edges of this undefined space.
This exhibition is one of a series of artworks and installations that explores how we, as humans, experience and understand our bodies and how our experiencing of our body and its interactions affect the whole of who we “are”. Nomadic Borderlands explores the relationships between our bodies and our exterior world, focusing of the shifting edges of where our body (interior) ends and the outside (exterior) world begins.
- Jjenna Hupp Andrews
We all have a body; this is obvious. Our lives are structured by our body: When we are hungry - we eat, when we are cold - we cover up, when we are tired - we sleep, and yet how do we actually understand our relationship with our body? Is our body more than these physical indicators? Does our body extend past this physical form? What role does our body play in the understanding of our identity? Do we have only one body or do we create multiple bodies for ourselves? Where does our body end and our environment begin?
In Postmodern thought Nomadic Borderlands refers to the undefined space between what we know as our reality and the “outside” (that which we do not know yet brushes with and influences our experiences). They are nomadic because the boundaries of this space is always moving and changing as the fuzzy edges of our own existence brushes with the fuzzy edges of this undefined space.
This exhibition is one of a series of artworks and installations that explores how we, as humans, experience and understand our bodies and how our experiencing of our body and its interactions affect the whole of who we “are”. Nomadic Borderlands explores the relationships between our bodies and our exterior world, focusing of the shifting edges of where our body (interior) ends and the outside (exterior) world begins.
- Jjenna Hupp Andrews