Indra Joachimsthal
Fine Arts BA
Royal Academy Of Art The Hague KABK
Specialisms: Fine Art / Painting /
Location: Utrecht, Netherlands
Indra Joachimsthal
First Name: Indra
Last Name: Joachimsthal
Specialisms: Fine Art / Painting
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My Location: Utrecht, Netherlands
University / College: Royal Academy Of Art The Hague KABK
Course / Program Title: Fine Arts BA
About
My painting practice explores the disenchantment of contemporary life. It seeks to offer a reappreciation of the inexplicable and the unknown, in the face of a world disappearing in calculable formulas. By employing automatic painting techniques inspired by Spiritualism, Psychoanalysis, and Surrealism, I cure my yearning for something beyond explanation, not something to believe in, but something that acknowledges the weight of the unknown.
The work reflects the within and the beyond. Where determined spaces exist within seemingly infinite spaces, human bodies can become landscapes, and animals can be impossibly large or particularly small. These elements address the micro- and macrocosm that we humans navigate between. How small and irrelevant we are in the external scope of things, while at the same time containing an incredible vastness within ourselves; in our inner worlds of thoughts, feelings and fantasies. Highlighting the dualities of the internal and the external, chance and the determined, the rational and irrational, the real and the imaginary and blurring the lines within these seeming contradictions.
This series of oil paintings explores the disenchantment of the contemporary world and tries to bring back the mystical. By employing automatic painting techniques inspired by Spiritualism, Psychoanalysis, and Surrealism, I try to cure my yearning for something beyond explanation, not something to believe in, but something that acknowledges the weight of the unknown.
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