Flux – an installation, left to time. A paradoxical liaison between meticulous planning and deliberate coincidence.
In my piece ‚Flux‘, I focus on the transience of the ecosystem and use my creative process to invite the viewer to think clearly about the fragility of nature and human intervention. I chose a number of ‚familiar‘ materials, the criteria for me being their symbolic, formal and cultural significance. For example,carbon dioxide and the material coal, both substances that are characterised by endless metaphors, on the one hand in the fields of art and politics, and on the other hand in the environment.
Over two days, always starting from the exact same location, I recorded the course of time and happenstance with an analogue, medium-format camera. At the beginning you see a pyramidal structure made of white cubes, a symbol that is familiar and used again and again, but not just in art and the artistic space. When they are layers in a pyramid, the individual square blocks seem unimportant, but together they manage to become a familiar shape and thus become a synonym for culture and nature. Structure and form are reminiscent of ancient symbols of state, but in their abstract form remind one of an iceberg – I play with this dualism here.