The study of the interaction between body and space has taken centre stage in recent design and architectural debates. Space is being re-examined for its fluidity and ability to adapt, give dimensions, and how space measures change when understood as time. In contrast, the body inhibits this space and time and constantly changes.
The relationship between body and space is interdependent and intertwined, where they constantly affect, shape, and impress one another. The nuances, spirit and social implications of the many cultures and spaces we inhabit imprint on the body, while the body is where identity, reflexivity, soul, and mind mediate; thus, the two incessantly become sites of shifting cultural meaning.
This multi-platform event brings together an international and multigenerational group of artists, researchers and designers to share current understandings, opportunities and challenges of Body and Space Relations through basic experimental art and design research. The exhibition explores empirical artistic expressions and functional aesthetic ideas to examine the role of objects and materiality in cultural sociology, the relation between bodily perception and space, and how it affects people’s art experience whenencountered in an unconventional setting.
Curators: Tazeen Qayyum,Faisal Anwar and Faseeh Saleem
2023. , p. 32