embodied assemblage, 2023 190 cm x 145 cm (detail)
drawing on fabric
assemblage - gewohnte Bäume 2022-2023
The focus of my work is on embodying the constant interconnectedness of us humans in the more-than-human world.
The work cycle assemblage - familiar trees (2022-2023) refers less to the artistic term assemblage than to its direct translation from French:
assemblage (French) = putting together
By allowing several snapshots to grow together into a larger whole through a network of lines and connecting them together, I trace the trail of a symbiosis between humans and the environment.
This association is primarily offered by lichen, which consists of a species of algae and a fungus that have lived together in perfect symbiosis for millennia.
This collaboration, this attention to one another, this connection is the basis for me to rethink our position as human beings and, above all, our interactions with more-than-human life forms in this world.
In order to transfer the ideas about the connectivity between the human body and its environment into my physical work process, I began to use my own environment as a tool for painting and drawing.
By using found materials, breaking them down, processing them, and thus creating my own pigments, my color space emerges. Through the selection and creation of my own pigments, stories of places and interactions with my immediate surroundings emerge.
For example, there is a particular pigment shade from Monte Amiata (Italy), the region of my birth, that can no longer be sold because the mountain has been eroded too much at this soil layer.
For the work 'Keimblatt (2022)', I collected soil from Monte Amiata, produced the pigment MA-21, and used it to paint the final layer of 'Keimblatt (2022)'.
This moment of unavailability, of the direct realization of the finality of resources, was a pivotal moment for me as an artist and as a person.
The world we live in has limits; it is not endless.
assemblage - gewohnte Bäume 2023 150 x100cm
drawing + Gofun Shirayuki shell Pigmenton canvas
Verbundenheitl, 2022 190 x 150cm
drawing, chalk on canvas
soma-shell 2023 200x140cm
drawing on fabric
exo-shell 2023 200x140cm
drawing on fabric
Candis - is breaking up with you (2023)
For the exhibition Candis - is breaking up with you (2023), the floor was painted allover its entire surface with chalk pigment. The bold brushstrokes extended the movement of the free hanging big format drawings.
During the opening, each visitor left footprints and traces that were visible inside and outside the exhibition. These steps and traces created an additional, constantly changing, independent painting on the floor.
There was no explicit introduction to the interaction between the visitors and the exhibition space. Regardless of the works shown, in addition to the inevitable footprints, other traces of the visitors were created. Such as tags and drawings that were left in the chalk floor.
Every day, after the opening hours of the exhibition, the floor was consciously swept again and thus transformed into a new work. This meditative and performative sweeping process at the end of the day became the silent part of the exhibition.
The large, drawn works in the exhibition were presented hanging freely. Through interaction with the space and the visitors, the air always creates movement and generates interactions between the viewer and the work.
We are constantly moving and leave unconscious and conscious traces in this world.
assemblage shirayuki 2023 135cm x 80cm
drawing + Gofun Shirayuki shell Pigment on canvas
''somehow we are holding eachother
without touching. ''
2020-2023
