Gallery Visit – 25/04/16 – States of Mind: Tracing the edges of consciousness @ The Wellcome Collection

“This exhibition follows on from the first instalment of States of Mind which saw artist Ann Veronica Janssens fill a room with beautiful multicoloured mist which visitors queued for hours to get enveloped in. Enlisting the help of artists, philosophers, neuroscientists and psychologists, the second part of the programme, Tracing the Edges of Consciousness unpicks the awareness of one’s existence through a series of changing installations exploring synaesthesia, disorders of memory, somnambulism and what happens when conscious experience is interrupted.”

 

I found this exhibition eye opening and haunting at the same time. It was very immersive and evoked emotions through sensory triggers, which is something that I aspire to find in art.

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