Soft Geometry # 8C

Anne Katrine Senstad
Soft Geometry # 8C
PHOTOGRAPHY

YEAR: 2015
EDITION: MULTIPLE
TECHNIQUE: PHOTOGRAPHIC C PRINTS, PRINTED ON CANSON PLATINÈ FIBER RAG 310G
SIZE: 30 X 30X 0.1CM
FRAMED: NO
£2,300

About this Artwork
Edition of 6 + 2Ap Turnaround time 2-3 weeks, printed on demand. Artwork will be shipped rolled in a dent-resistant tube.

The works of Soft Geometry are influenced by Suprematist teachings, texts, aesthetics, and philosophies, as well as constructivism, geometry, and Malevich's Faktura, a concept relating to the surface, the capacities and functions of the creative mind in relation to being one with one discipline - fully fused with the object.

About the Artist
New York and Oslo-based Norwegian photographer Anne Katrine Senstad’s work concentrates on sensorial responses to light, color and form, transcendental philosophies and social-political environmental initiatives.

Education
Anne Katrine Senstad was educated at the University of California at Berkeley, earning a BFA in Photography at Parsons School of Design and concentrating on film at the New School for Social Research in New York in which Senstad prepared for her multi-disciplinary practice: installation, video, photography, neon sculpture and site-specific work

Technique
Senstad produces photographic C-prints from scanned color film negatives.

Her most recent (2020) solo exhibition at Freight + Volume in New York, Color Kinesthesia 6A42.2, in collaboration with diverse materiality, is in dialogue with Rothko’s color field paintings.

Color Kinesthesia implies the body’s response to color transitions. This blending is made possible through photographing color film negative. As a photographer, Senstad is essentially capturing a moment of light and color from an interactive installation thus weaving together a cohesive multidisciplinary practice.

In contrast, the geometric phenomena of ubiquitous triangular orientation versus changing color combinations in Concrete Planes (2019-2020) speaks more of scientific, philosophical investigation rather than a transcendental experience like in the Cosmosis Collages series.

This series was created to complement Senstad’s neon light installation Elements, and represents oneness with the cosmic universe as a path of enlightenment. The Suprematist and Constructivist movements provided inspiration, while the use of modern technology and materiality produced new visual forms.

Inspiration
Senstad’s process begins with research on perception and the cognitive response to light, sound and color. Her clever use of neon commercial materials expresses poetic humor and articulates a literal and critical intent.

With Forget Flavin, a white neon sculpture referencing Dan Flavin, shown at Freight + Volume, Senstad straightforwardly, marks her own territory in a male-dominated light art genre.

In Through The Spectrum, Athr Gallery, Jeddah, a light art exhibition in the middle east, Senstad presents alongside James Turell. Although she explains her work as a perceptive cognitive response to light, sound and color, rather than Turell’s spiritual source, it’s difficult not to compare.

What Senstad and Turell share is an invitation to the transcendental experience.

Senstad’s installations are immersive and interactive evoking a psychological response to light, sound and color, rather than an interpretation of the sublime.

She seeks to represent her sensorial experimentation and investigation as unique compared to her male contemporaries.

Exhibitions
Senstad has exhibited extensively in solo and group shows throughout the United States, Norway and worldwide.

Galleries
Kristin Hjellegjerde, London

Pink Gallery, Seoul

SL Gallery, New York City