Gymnastik der Geist
mixed media
2016
mixed media
2016
Gymnastik der Geist
6 from 67 photo series
each 200x150 cm
2016
6 from 67 photo series
each 200x150 cm
2016
Exhibition Views, Galerie Kiosk24, Herford(DE), 2018
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Gymnastik der Geist
9 from 67-photo series
mixed media
2017
9 from 67-photo series
mixed media
2017
Gymnastics of the Ghost
Gymnastics of the Ghost is a series assembled from discarded materials found in the studios and storage rooms of an art academy in Germany—unfinished works, completed paintings abandoned after graduation, industrial scraps, waterproof fabric, paper, and netting. Confronted with these paintings left behind in storage, an urge arose to breathe new life into them. Layers of paint were added over the abandoned paintings and drawings, which were then cut apart and reused as patterns.
Summoned into a small studio space assigned to me in a corner of the academy, these “ghosts” stood as structures that seemed to capture invisible beings in uncanny gymnastic poses. The graffiti-spray colors, unstable structures, and surfaces cut and layered in fragments convey a sense of motion and rhythm even in stillness. The act of reviving discarded matter becomes an allegory for the cycles of creation and the possibility of renewal, compressing the traces of material, time, and labor into a single scene.
Roughly installed in the space like freehand drawings, the works are photographed once completed and then dismantled. Transferred into digital storage, the “ghosts” drift once again with their backgrounds erased—floating as they did when first abandoned.
Gymnastics of the Ghost is a series assembled from discarded materials found in the studios and storage rooms of an art academy in Germany—unfinished works, completed paintings abandoned after graduation, industrial scraps, waterproof fabric, paper, and netting. Confronted with these paintings left behind in storage, an urge arose to breathe new life into them. Layers of paint were added over the abandoned paintings and drawings, which were then cut apart and reused as patterns.
Summoned into a small studio space assigned to me in a corner of the academy, these “ghosts” stood as structures that seemed to capture invisible beings in uncanny gymnastic poses. The graffiti-spray colors, unstable structures, and surfaces cut and layered in fragments convey a sense of motion and rhythm even in stillness. The act of reviving discarded matter becomes an allegory for the cycles of creation and the possibility of renewal, compressing the traces of material, time, and labor into a single scene.
Roughly installed in the space like freehand drawings, the works are photographed once completed and then dismantled. Transferred into digital storage, the “ghosts” drift once again with their backgrounds erased—floating as they did when first abandoned.