About

Artist Statement

I am interested in the intersection between the real and the non-real- between the physical world and subliminal space- between the classical and the quantum.

Through symbolic materiality, the combined use of the structural- sculptural forms, places, everyday objects, and the ethereal- video loops, light, sound, I portray the matter/energy, particle/wave, dichotomy of human perception, and necessarily particularized reality.

Sine Qua Non is a mixed-media and multi-sensory immersive installation which superimposes the universal and the personal within a structural representation of the inner sanctum, the mind.

Interstitium is a large interactive sculpture which takes a bare-bones look at the physical location of that intersection which defines my work, an inaccessible place called human.

In a Brown Study is a multi-iterative site-specific projection, mixed media, and performance installation which considers the importance of conceptual work in the production of art, art as cognition and vice versa, and probes the quantum theory of superposition, approximating the at-once cathartic and disturbing sensation of being lost in one’s own thought.  

These works are an external hard-drive, a system of inquiry, fragments, breadcrumbs, puzzle pieces, conceptual elements in motion toward the creation of a philosophic equation for… it all.

Bio

Annie Stout is an emerging conceptual 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 and conceptual arabesque, and influenced by iconic thinkers and artists such as Douglas Hofstader, The Brothers Quay, David Lynch, 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.