Sabine Senft
Borderline Reality
Installation with border rocks, candy, double channel video, steel
2017
I am exploring the physical and psychological spaces around me. I am hoping to find a diverse mode of thinking through our current moment in time in order to address human agency, cognitive processes and intergenerational transfer of trauma in stimulating and sometimes challenging ways. I like to tell a story with my art about the impact we have on the world and people around us, and our potential to shape history and lives while we are alive. My works offer a space for reflection.
My work is research-based. I love the challenge to let the data and concept surprise me with my choice of materials. It helps me develop new thought processes and abandon preconceived notions. I start with the personal and merge it with a wider socio-political narrative I observe.
I detect currents from the past and present and translate these through my filter of cross-cultural observations into sculpture or mixed media art to encourage empathy, healing and understanding.
Sabine Senft is an interdisciplinary artist (BFA/MFA) whose practice bridges installation, sculpture, public art, mixed media and video, often bringing together unlikely, symbolic elements in a single installation. She creates balanced yet poignant works that merge the personal with a wider socio-political narrative and reflect her ongoing investigation of individual and collective human agency.
She earned her bachelor’s degree in Fine Art at the University of Regensburg (1994) and graduated with a master’s degree in Fine Art and Education in Munich (1995). After living and working in Germany, England, Japan and Brazil she settled in San Antonio, Texas.
Sabine Senft has won recognition with the Rick Liberto Award for Visual Arts and the Artist Foundation of San Antonio Grant. She has been awarded the 2021 Arts&Letters Award for artistic merit by FOSAPL. This past summer she spent in Berlin, Germany, at the Künstlerhaus Bethanien International Studio Program after being awarded the Blue Star Residency Fellowship.
