Michelle Weinberg’s drawings, paintings and videos of scenographies and imaginary spatial constructions reinterpret mental space as playful metaphors of the relationships we establish with the idea of place. When a figure occupies these spaces, as in the works Autarkic Diffusion and The Magician’s Assistant, the artist herself appears as a witness, a reflection or apparition, surrounded or invaded by the objects, perspectives and decorative elements that she herself has created.
She exists amidst transparent layers of furniture, words from the subconscious and the reflections of other human beings. All this presents a mind-body-space relationship that is linked not only to the intentionality of human needs, but also to the consciousness of free will, and to the significance of space as an identifying symbol of the individual.
The absence of an identifiable boundary between the mind and its physical extension is testimony to the interlocking mechanism of psyche and body, working in concert. The evidence is compiled in transparencies and layers of thought, manifesting as a continuous reciprocity between a multiplicity of selves. The human mind resides in its own imaginative constructions, producing subtle and complex creative thought.