Brainspotting
2025
Brainspotting finds itself in between a contemporary art sculpture and a design object due to its utility as a lamp, is part of a new series of works which started as a reflection on mind and soul processes, occasionally already named through therapeutic vocabularies. Drawing on the homonymous therapy aiming to address unresolved trauma and promote healing, the work reenacts the idea of the brainspot as the specific position of the eye, which is found through its subtle movement and "can indicate the areas of heightened brain activity related to unresolved trauma or emotional distress". This exact subtle eye movement, directly affiliated with brain activities is what this work brings to the forefront. The neurons of the brain, their connections and dislocations are represented in literal yet also in metaphoric ways through its golden details. This golden element is used in an effort to praise the healing process, its uncertainty and risks, without fearing all the uncanny or eerie qualities that come over its course. The flowers operate within this sculptural scheme, as the brainspots, embodying the eye, finding it at their core. The subtle eye movement, a method of finding another self, one that has been reborn from its ashes, that has been flourishing inside our bodies, occasionally unintentionally or instinctively, becomes a part of the dispersed flowers occupying the head. What connects them is what concurrently tears them apart. The fragmentary nature of all these characteristics coexisting in this sculpture, hopes to legitimize the gap, to look with and beyond the chasm and to use every move, break and action as a tool for growing and becoming.
