Barbara Wildenboer, a South African artist with a unique body of work, explores the connections between science, philosophy, history and psychology with rare depth. Using a combination of analogue and digital processes, she produces works of great visual and conceptual richness, oscillating between photographic constructions, animated collages and arresting installations. Bringing together objects that are both scientific and spiritual, her work reflects a search for hidden meaning in the visible world and beyond.
Barbara explores a liminal space where empirical reality and the inexplicable collide. Telescopes, occult devices, ancient books and fertility figures are just some of the objects she uses to question our relationship with knowledge and superstition. This multi-dimensional approach allows the artist to weave a web of connections between fields that at first glance appear dissociated.
Her ‘altered books’ are a striking example of this. Both poetic and metaphorical, these works accompany his other creations and provide food for thought on subjects as diverse as fractal geometry, psychoanalysis and archaeology.