- Visual Art
world:view
Forest Senecal
3 July 2026 19:00–21:00
4 July 2026 09:30–16:00
5 July 2026 09:30–16:00
In WORLD:VIEW, I insert a colon - a pause - to allow the reader a moment to reflect on the space between their world and their view of it.
WORLD:VIEW centers three sculptures assembled from found materials. To me, the practice of "zu verschenken" boxes is a gift. There's much we can learn in the investigation of unwanted things.
PORTAL takes a plastic object of unknown use that, with the addition of inset lights, becomes a tunnel through which one might imagine a different world. Light not only illuminates the shape of the object, but also the very wall it hangs on, rendering rhe sculpture borderless. The light reminds the viewer of a new idea, shining through us onto our place, our community, and our ideological foundation.
MIRROR is formed from a framed LED screen from a broken tv. The cracks are filled with silver pigment, in a reference to the Japanese art and philosophy of Kintsugi, wherein the repaired cracks in broken ceramics are highlighted. Mounted on the wall at head-height, the once-tv now functions as a mirror, darkly iridescent like an oil slick. The looker cannot see themself clearly, and their self-perception is overlaid with thin silver cracks. This piece speaks to the alienation of foreignness, the othering felt not only when crossing geographical borders but also when in a new cultural, social, or thought space. It asks: What feelings arise when you struggle to recognize yourself?
CREATURE's legs are made from an umbrella and its body is made of papier-machéd solidarity newspapers — the arts newspapers that people sell on the street and in the ubahn for a bit of kleingeld. It thus interrogates the ways we make monsters of others in our world by ignoring the discomfort of viewing the world as it is. Simultaneously, it asks: in art's aestheticization of suffering, what is lost?
WORLD:VIEW centers three sculptures assembled from found materials. To me, the practice of "zu verschenken" boxes is a gift. There's much we can learn in the investigation of unwanted things.
PORTAL takes a plastic object of unknown use that, with the addition of inset lights, becomes a tunnel through which one might imagine a different world. Light not only illuminates the shape of the object, but also the very wall it hangs on, rendering rhe sculpture borderless. The light reminds the viewer of a new idea, shining through us onto our place, our community, and our ideological foundation.
MIRROR is formed from a framed LED screen from a broken tv. The cracks are filled with silver pigment, in a reference to the Japanese art and philosophy of Kintsugi, wherein the repaired cracks in broken ceramics are highlighted. Mounted on the wall at head-height, the once-tv now functions as a mirror, darkly iridescent like an oil slick. The looker cannot see themself clearly, and their self-perception is overlaid with thin silver cracks. This piece speaks to the alienation of foreignness, the othering felt not only when crossing geographical borders but also when in a new cultural, social, or thought space. It asks: What feelings arise when you struggle to recognize yourself?
CREATURE's legs are made from an umbrella and its body is made of papier-machéd solidarity newspapers — the arts newspapers that people sell on the street and in the ubahn for a bit of kleingeld. It thus interrogates the ways we make monsters of others in our world by ignoring the discomfort of viewing the world as it is. Simultaneously, it asks: in art's aestheticization of suffering, what is lost?
Biography
Forest Senecal
Forest Senecal is a multi-disciplinary artist. In their work across painting and sculpture, they're especially interested in found and recycled materials. Drawing on a background in Political Science, Forest creates works that explore the relationship between people and their human-created world. As a queer, non-binary foreigner in Germany, Forest is also interested in themes of belonging and identity.
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