Maria Eugenia Moya

The body can feel weight without carrying a heavy object, softness without caressing a smooth surface, or warmth without a temperature rise. The brain is wired in such a way that when it sees an object it can already understand how it would feel on the body. Sight can entice every other sense without directly engaging it. Perception is the interpretation of sensory information through the nervous system that allows for the understanding of a situation. When I refer to our sensorial system, I mean to go beyond our five classical senses. Cognition is a permeable membrane unique to every individual, and as such biased and malleable. How can the sensations of time, balance, memory, or connections be transmitted through materials; ceramic, concrete, metal, plaster?
Perception is the backbone of my art practice; perception both of the self and the space-time it exists in. In recent years this exploration has turned toward my own body. I’ve used it as a tool for two and three-dimensional work attempting to capture gestures, moments in time, crevices and voids in tangible forms. Bodily work tends to incite bodily responses in either a sort of sensorial empathy, or for lack of a better word, synesthetic perception. The body knows, and as it perceives it generates meaning. It can touch with the eyes and see with the hands.