Karin Arink sees the artwork as an object in which the spectator can move, so that the artwork is like a shell for a new experience. A metamorphosis of the 'normal' experiences of body and existence. Her work is based on the different ways in which we manifest ourselves as people: body (posture), clothing and language - and she manipulates these forms until appearance and its convergence in a new form. The skin of her works is important: shiny and pleated, transparent or solid: tactile information that guides the experience. The work of art as a being, which relates to our ways of being, our 'states of self'.
For ArtRotterdam 2015, she reflects on her vision of the fragmented state of the (sea) star, which can reproduce by splitting itself.