Passing Through Pores

All of us have a personal fog of information around us at all times. This is the principle around which Morssinkhof builds her practice. She imagines personal memories and accumulated knowledge suspended around her like tiny droplets, forming layers of mist that constantly shift in composition with each step she takes. Through this lens, Morssinkhof digests, remixes, and reshuffles these fragments of information on her canvases, exploring how new meanings might emerge from the relationships between them. A central force in her practice is the highlighting of byproducts often considered inferior: noise, grain, blur, and pixelation. Morssinkhof zooms in to the level of particles, translating their texture into painterly gestures and revealing embedded layers of meaning. In this data, she explores how images hold power to simultaneously reveal and conceal, inviting a sensuous, embodied act of looking. Much like white light containing all colours of the rainbow, Morssinkhof likens the fog to a field rich with meaning to draw from. Building on her background in cognitive psychology, Morssinkhof is preoccupied with the human urge to categorize. Ranging from online visual archives (such as her years-old Tumblr blog) to physical collections and mental heuristics, she wonders how and why we dissect and categorize the way we do – for better and for worse. Her current research weaves this interest into her ongoing fog metaphor, tracing parallels between archival fragments and droplets of mist, their part/whole relations and how zooming in or out alters visibility and disappearance. Her latest works slip through the porous boundaries of memory and perception, tracing hazy constellations of thought to uncover fluid, fragmentary truths.