'Connective Potential' by Matthew Cangiano at Francisverein, Berlin

‘Connective Potential’ evolved from an interest in diagrammatic strategies, that is, the act of solidifying non-spatial concepts. The process of creating ‘Connective Potential’ sought to further understand my initial attraction to diagrams. Transposing concepts into spatial frameworks can help us escape the constrictive grasp that language monopolizes on our reflective consciousness, while exploiting our evolutionary capacity to cognize space. This process comes with its own set of risks and limitations; we risk confusing the intensive with the extensive, the qualitative with the quantitative. ‘Connective Potential’ opens up to this problem field and considers spatial frameworks pregnant with dynamic potential as a way to negotiate the restraints and advantages of spatialized thinking.