INARI SANDELL. BUTTERFLY LOGIC

In her work, Inari Sandell (b. 1991, Finland) explores some of the discourses and strategies of the psychiatric disciplinary system that have defined the standard narrative regarding neurodiversity and the autism spectrum. These repressive methods are often aimed at reinforcing the dominant narrative; the control, internment, repression, and medication of disruptive agents are at the basis of this regulatory system. Accordingly, discipline and sanctions are intended to preserve what the capitalist system regards as a person's most valuable attributes: their capacity to produce and consume.

Butterfly Logic takes as its starting point the survival strategies used by insects: evade predators by flying in an unpredictable and chaotic manner, and in doing so, invites visitors to transpose these patterns of behavior into the social sphere.

Images and objects shown in Butterfly Logic present nexuses and paradoxes with various elements and materials used in regulatory treatments for autism. Within, Sandell combines fragility (glass, textiles and transparent effects) with hardness (edges, spikes and metals).