Indra Wouters
Collapsible
Art
fine art, installations, industrial processes, scale models
Day: Friday, Saturday, Sunday
Location: BSO Monopole
Indra Wouters

As a visual artist, Indra Wouters creates installations in which she reacts to complexities around information and knowledge. More specifically, she zooms in on the infrastructures of industrial processes, in order to fathom the scientific and technological principles on which our modern production is based. Through technical drawings, scale models and experiments, her research leads toward larger interpretations of industrial architecture and technologies. These installations showcase handcrafted objects ranging from ceramic and concrete to metal and wood. In this process, forms are liberated from their original utility to generate more universal forms in which scale and material become the parameters to create new formal identities. Important in the research behind the installations is the philosophy in science, sociology and craftsmanship. Craftsmanship and science are related in that they both connect knowledge about the observable and material world, in order to have a certain control over them.