8″x16″; collage on wood; 2024
COLLAGE ON VIEW
Dunia Barrera: Poetry of Perception
at the Munich Creative Heartbeat in Munich, Germany
2 April-26 May 2024
“Poetry of Perception” is a body of work that explores how we perceive others and what we believe to be the truth. These works show sections of images with symbols such as status objects, words, social roles, people, emotions. We do not see the whole picture. This is an invitation to think about how we think about others. The narratives we tell ourselves and firmly believe in.
7″x15″; collage on wood; 2024
How we perceive others has more to do with what we already know than what we see. People are complex, and there are more sides to a person than we can know. Dunia Barrera organized these individual elements together on the basis of a universal story. This allowed her to establish a connection and create a new interpretation. When we break up these structures and arrange them in other combinations, we tell ourselves a different story, a different narrative. We are constantly adding new meanings. It is the poetry of our perception to think about what we tell ourselves about others and to question it.
(text adapted from material provided by the artist)
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