Downward Dog

Downward Dog” is a new site-specific multimedia installation by Katharina Busl at ExBoot. Soft colors, foam, ergonomic shapes, and a bubble bath contrast with ritualistic  objects, rough textures, and cold steel — melding into a bizarre Wohlfühloase.

Katharina Busl was born in Munich, Germany, and currently lives and works in Utrecht. She recently graduated from the Utrecht School of Arts (HKU).

In her artistic practice, Katharina Busl explores the space where virtual and material reality intertwine. Living in the information age, where digitality has become a crucial  extension of ourselves as social and cultural beings, Busl continually seeks to explore these transformative forces within her praxis and questions the influence they have on us and our perception of reality.

Born into the last generation with somewhat clearer defined boundaries between the digital and the physical world, she witnessed the advent of the smartphone and the internet becoming ubiquitous. New technology steadily creeping into her life felt like magic. She slowly became enchanted by its wonders and now floats with ease in the infosphere.

Through her use of various media like painting, sculpture, and digital media, held in uncanny shapes, textures, and synthetic colors, combined in installations, Busl generates otherworldly, hybrid experiences. By confronting the public with unusual and immersive environments, she wants to transport them to a realm of transcendence where constant transformations occur, inviting everyone to speculate and redefine reality.

Please note: The Nijverheid (and therefore EXboot) will be closed from the 22nd of december to the 2nd of january.

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