Gabrielle Senza

Lives and works in USA

Artist statement

HAVE YOU EVER FELT INVISIBLE? HAVE YOU EVER WISHED TO BE INVISIBLE? WHAT INVISIBLE THINGS DO YOU RELY ON EVERY DAY? These are a few of the questions participants have been answering when engaging with the Invisibility Lab - an international social practice platform launched in Berlin in 2017 that functions as a laboratory, studio, performance space, and archive of invisible things. I work across disciplines to investigate the phenomena of invisibility. My creative research examines what (and who) is seen, hidden, acknowledged or ignored in contemporary everyday social, political and environmental situations. Working within the context of social practice, I delight in choreographing interactions that invite viewers to question the world around them, and by doing so, become creative researchers actively participating in the cross-cultural study of the unseen. Crossing virtual and physical boundaries, I have engaged with more than 250 people in one-to-one performances, group workshops, casual encounters, and public pop-up installations in Berlin, New York, Lisbon, Istanbul, Miami, and elsewhere, as well as in virtual spaces such as on Zoom and online at InvisibilityLab.com The narratives and data contributed anonymously by participants are distilled and alchemized into new works of art such as performances, music, video, works on paper, installations and artist books. The contributors' individual content is archived and kept intact online. Seeking to make the invisible...

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