Genine Larin seeks, through her art, to transform bodily affect into concrete knowledge. Stone Baby: An Exploration of Affect and Trauma in Visual Art showcases the outcomes of her material and digital explorations, in the form of installation, sculpture and film.
Genine’s primary motivation can be described as a relational and ethical attempt to find a balance between the erotic and aggressive. This is experienced within the self, as feelings of attraction and repulsion in response to the new and the unknown ‘other’. Consequently creative practice is necessarily a complex affair that is experienced as a completely immersive and self-contained psychological space. It is within this space that both physical sensation and raw emotion are able to tangibly and conceptually interact with psychoanalytic theory, and concrete materials, video and sound.
