Stefan J Schaffeld is a Dutch emerging visual artist, practice-led researcher, and professional art therapist currently residing in Ostrhauderfehn, Germany. He obtained a BA in Fine Art from the University for the Creative Arts (UCA), UK.
His primary interest resides in exploring encounters through art-based intra-actions as an empathic and critical social practice. Through his collaborative works and installations, he addresses the question of how these encounters are mediated by our social and cultural expectations resulting in a destabilized Self.
With his current body of work, he researches preverbal understanding obtained and created through lived experiences in spaces that embrace moments of wonder and the resonance with human and non-human agency.
Physical processes of transformation are his approach to looking from a material perspective at questions that reside in-between subjects, objects, agents, and experiences.
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