Artist STatement
I am interested in the weird experience of humanness and the complex relationship between the physical world and psychological space. Through the interdisciplinary practices of stop-motion photography, performance, projection, and more traditional object-making methods, I merge the symbolic material elements of sculptural form/ site-specificity and film loops- the “real” or physical and the “non-real” or ethereal- into experiential illusions representative of hallucination, dream, obsessive thought, and the disorienting manusia of everyday existence. Together my artworks are elements of an incomplete equation; they compose a fragmented and evolving philosophy in motion toward a theory of… it all.
Bio
Annie Stout is an emerging artist currently living in Bloomington IN. Active in the arts since an early age, she originally attended school for music performance and travelled for dance workshops before switching focus to fiber arts, sculpture, and finally mixed media, installation, projection, and performance. Through a representational material dichotomy of corporeal form and ethereal element, Annie pulls from her personal identity as a fierce introvert with insatiable curiosity, to produce work about the inaccessibility of the internal human experience, subjective reality, the recursive self, overlapping opposites, conceptual work and psychological states. Inspired by Quantum theory, philosophy, psychology and conceptual arabesque, and influenced by iconic thinkers and artists such as Douglas Hofstader, Steven and Timothy Quay, David Lynch, Tony Oursler, and Alvin Lucier, Annie’s work yields unexpected insight into the tension of unsettled thought, and wonders out loud with the artist’s own peculiar humor- a subtle cheeky irony- what it ultimately means to be human, in isolation and in community.