Porous Studio is the evolving practice of Samantha Samika, a visual artist working across installation, moving image, painting, and drawing. Her work creates immersive environments where perception unfolds through participation, attention, and sensory experience.
Through projection, gesture, and spatial intervention, she develops installations that function as resonant fields—spaces where bodies, images, and environments enter into dynamic relation. Here, the body is approached not as an object to represent, but as a site of perception and attunement.
Porous Studio brings together artworks, collaborations, and gatherings that explore embodiment as a process of resonance, where creativity emerges through relation, presence, and shared experience.
About
Samantha Samika is a visual artist working across installation, moving image, painting, and drawing. Her practice approaches embodiment as both subject and method, creating immersive environments where perception unfolds through participation, attention, and sensory experience.
Rooted in painting and expanded through spatial and time-based media, her work investigates the body as a site of memory, relation, and ecological continuity. Through projection, gesture, and relational structures, she develops installations that function as temporary environments for encounter, attunement, and collective presence.
Her practice is informed by somatic inquiry, contemplative traditions, and expressive arts facilitation, integrating contemporary art with embodied and relational ways of knowing. Across media, she explores how resonance operates between bodies, images, and environments as a foundation for perception and creative experience.
She holds an MFA in Visual Arts from Vermont College of Fine Arts and is based in Canada.
