Jenna Van Buekenhout
Under constantly increasing pressure, humans fracture into necessary reconnections to survive. The constant wounding of chronic precarity forces us into compliance with ways of life that sustain the logic of profit over wellbeing, entrenching neutral pathways with habits that degrade our connections to our bodies, each other, and the planet that sustains us.
I create soft sculptures, poetry, photography, and installations that incorporate scraps of vulnerability and whatever else I can get my hands on. My work is about intimacy as informed by phenomenological psychology from a posthumanist perspective. I'm interested in the ways in which our perceptions and beliefs can mislead us and cause us to fail ourselves and each other. I want to know how we can better show up for each other, how we can create better world for each other.
TLDR;
I make hard things soft and soft things hard.