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When do we give form, when are we formed? And who actually does the forming? The cryptic BRAINWASHED exhibition by Michael Sailstorfer lays out a trail. To the brain, to consciousness, but also to the question of how much independent life and agency there is in matter itself.

The term BRAINWASHED usually refers to a process involving influence and manipulation. One brain washes the other. One person, or instance, tries to control another's will, to reshape it, until the person concerned is no longer capable of any autonomous action.

In his BRAINWASHED exhibition, Michael Sailstorfer, who …