ABOUT

The works of Sabine Kacunko offer little aesthetic prettification, nor are they the abstracted products of an artistic imagination running riot. Rather, Kacunko seeks merely to draw our attention, which is all too frequently diverted by technology and high political ideas, to a perfectly normal, naturally occurring phenomenon – what is already there, unseen and, in the eyes of the artist, wrongly uncelebrated. 
Despite the use of advanced technological processes and filmic media, the quality of ‘aliveness’ and vitality are important features of Kacunko’s work.

“It is important to switch everything off and think, where is man in all this? We let ourselves become ruled by technology. So, my work always deals with analogue and digital, and is also always as if it is ‘live’.” In bridging the gap between science and art, Kacunko sees herself almost as an activist in the public domain, a spokesperson for a better way of living with and within our world.

Her work is a graceful yet potent reminder of our essential biological constitution and the importance of cooperative interaction in today’s individualized society. Above all, it is an immaculately executed study in natural behavior, which, although lacking in the warming tones of a David Attenborough voiceover, inspires a similar sense of wonderment to the old ecologist’s mesmeric documentaries. We see when the microscopic is used to shed light on the macroscopic.

Sabine Kacunko lives and works in Berlin

Arty Froushan

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