Julie Oppermann

My work investigates the phenomenology of visual perception, acknowledging the differences between visual input and the experience of seeing. My training in neuroscience engendered, in me, a curiosity about visual perception and how experiences are translated and modulated by the brain. I begin with the assumption that the eyes and brain act as distancing devices to filter, abstract, and codify sensory information. It follows that every experience and perception is subjective and relative, and further, each individual’s understanding of the self and the world exists within and is created by the brain. I relate this conceptually to the idea of interference – with every translation there is a loss of information, which can lead to a change in meaning. I am currently working on a series of paintings investigating the moiré effect, a type of visual interference generated in the brain by the miss-coding of information.