stefan pente

stefan pente (all pronouns, cultured as white, learning) works with performance, installation, painting and video. with her work, he tries to create terrains of de-familiarization, seeing things as they appear and not as what we have learned them to be. abstraction and non-representation are first steps in the process of clearing and confusing their gaze and imagination. stefan pente understands her process as a daily training to purge themself from preconceptions. it is a practice of re-calibration and re-orientation. with a focus on memory — individual as well as collective, inherited as well as self-collected — he delves into the effects of embodied memories on their own physical and emotional body, developing performative as well as sculptural practices of mapping, extraction and containment.