Isabella Fürnkäs (*1988, Tokyo, Japan) is an artist who works in a variety of media. The body of work involves equal shares of video, multi-media installation, performance and drawing. By manipulating the viewer, Fürnkäs creates contextual shifts revealing an inherent awkwardness that echoes our own vulnerabilities. The artist combines digital with archaic forms, tying bonds between different materials and contexts, causing friction. Experimental by nature her works involve a subtle comparison of the individual and its society, creating situations in which the viewer becomes aware, by the very moment of their body, through space. She puts the viewer on multiple tracks and wants to amplify the astonishment of the spectator. This creates compositions or settings that generate disruptive yet poetic images, leaving traces on the edge of recognition and alienation.
Georgina Pope for Sensus presents: Light & Dark, Funkhaus, Berlin