E N I G M A | In the Present Moment

About

The first solo show by Visual Artist & Performer Gwendolyn Kassenaar best known for creating  art live on stage performing with musicians and dancers. In a heightened state of consciousness, she improvises live in the moment drawing on her senses of hearing and seeing, her artistic imagination, while influenced by her chromosthesia.

But then after a performance… the art reveals a continual flow of elements moving through space, connecting, joining, moving, reconnecting, evoking the image of the infinite movement of particles in our universe, invisible to our naked human eyes. In ENIGMA Gwendolyn questions, is this what lies beyond our sensory experience? Is this the underlying nature of the present moment?

In her work the artist addresses the notion of time, the present moment versus duration, motion in space and how sound and vision come together. Expressed in her own visual language of vibrant colour and visual rhythm

Pop by to enjoy this vivacious art, feel the kinetic energy of the present moment and contemplate what lies beyond. What do you see?

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Short Bio - 

Gwendolyn Kassenaar is a London based, Dutch Visual Artist & Performer whose work is attracting considerable interest across the industry. A graduate from Chelsea College of Art, her work recently featured at the prestigious Yehudi Menuhin Concert Hall, Toulouse Lautrec Jazz Club and Vortex Jazz Club. For the renowned Bloomsbury Festival, she created ‘A Trajectory to Unsuffocation’ painting a giant 6x3m canvas live on stage performing with a contemporary dancer. Established in the London jazz and experimental music scene she regularly creates Live Art collaborating with musicians at well-known music and art venues including at Cafe Oto, Iklectik, Hundred Years Gallery and SOAS.  She is co-founder of the Noisy Women and recently featured on Soho Radio and in iconic magazine The Wire. ENIGMA is Gwendolyn’s first solo exhibition.

Connect @GwendolynKassenaar https://www.instagram.com/gwendolynkassenaar/ to watch videos of her live art performances or read more on www.gwendolynkassenaar.com .