REALITY, artistic research on ‘losing grip on reality’
Stichting Beautiful Distress
by Tessa Smorenburg
In 2016, the Dutch artist Yasmijn Karhof spent three months as artist-in-residence in the psychiatric ward at Kings County Hospital in Brooklyn NYC (USA). Integral to her artistic practice is the expression of the subjective experience of reality in a visual context.
During her research in the hospital she was intrigued by how the concept of ‘losing grip on reality’ is central in everyone’s narrative -both patients and hospital staff alike- and is perceived in many different ways. The outcome of her research, entitled Reality is currently being exhibited (18 September – 3 November) at the Beautiful Distress House in Amsterdam (NL).