Heart's Desire; Susan Sensemann
MARCH 7 -30, 2024 • A.P.E. GALLERY
PHYSIOTASMAGORICAL
Curated by Susan Sensemann
Opening reception: MARCH 8, 5-8pm, part of Arts Night Out
Gallery talk with the curator: MARCH 29, 7-8pm
The artists in Physiotasmagorical investigate corporeal secrets that reside at the juncture of the clinical and the imaginary. The domain of these artists is a spectacle of implicit knowledge. They question what is inside the body as a search for the definition of who we are outside. What effects do our internal phenomena have on our defining characteristics of both body and mind? How does the somatic self reveal our unique human reality? Intentional awareness of sensation, our “gut instinct,” reveals knowledge that is an embodied subject of “self.” The wisdom of the body is vague, invisible and powerful; a cabinet of curiosities. If phantasmagoric refers to “dream-like blurring of real and imaginary elements,” the addition of “physio” associates these works of art to the body as fantastic conjurings of our internal selves. The subject of “self” is both democratizing and unique, human being to human being.
Includes work by Carolynn Desch, Christa Donner, Michael Medeiros, Bobbi Meier, Deb Mell, Melissa Oresky, and
Susan Sensemann.