Malkah Landau-Wildy

UK artist based in Iceland.

 

Landau-Wildy uses her practice as a form of extended cognition, or exterior sensory apparatus, to explore sensory and emotive entanglements. An externalisation of emotional memory, and physiological phenomena, investigates imprints from the past that might have branched to the present. This fabricates a visual language that maps hidden interactions between non-visible forms, the creative process becoming like radiography for the complexity of cognition. Or, in the concise phrasing of Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev; “trying to understand with the senses how perception is articulated into knowledge.”

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"Malkah Landau-Wildy’s interest in the perception of time leads her to create sculptures drawings and animations that raise questions about what is regarded as organic in a universe made of matter. Is our perception of time solely determined by the limitations of our physiology, or are we equipped with the emotional apparatus to transcend those material roadblocks?"

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- Haroon Mirza