Space Oddity

Von der Auflenwelt abgeschnitten, dicht an dicht mit einer kleinen Gruppe immer gleicher Menschen. Kommunikation nach auflen nur digital. Dort arbeiten wo man schl‰ft, wo man seine Freizeit verbringt. Monatelang alles auf engem Raum. Nur kurze Ausfl¸ge vor die T¸r, wenn es unvermeidbare Gr¸nde gibt, und immer mit Risiko verbunden. Abgepacktes, lang haltbares, abwechslungsloses Essen und gefilterte, wiederverwendete, gereinigte Luft. Muskelschwund durch das Fehlen physischer Belastung in der Schwerelosigkeit. Weltraumstrahlung und das damit verbundene erhˆhte Krebsrisiko. Das Leben auf der internationalen Raumstation, der ISS stellt viele besondere Herausforderungen an die Bewohner und an die Gegenst‰nde, die sie mit in den Orbit nehmen. Wir widmen uns diesem Kosmos, erforschen die Bedingungen und Probleme, die zum Teil ganz fremd, aber gleichzeitig menschlich und nachempfindbar sind.

Orbit
Opening the Mountains
The Wasteland and a Red Line

The Study of the New Materialisms

“The ‘new materialism’ is the most common name given to a series of movements in several fields that criticise anthropocentrism, rethink subjectivity by playing up the role of inhuman forces within the human, emphasize the selforganizing powers of several nonhuman processes, explore dissonant relations between those processes and cultural practice, rethink the sources of ethics, and commend the need to fold a planetary dimension more actively and regularly into studies of global, interstate and state politics.”

William.E.Connolly

 

New Materialism is the main area where I develop my thoughts and transform them into my artworks. In 2019, I wrote my master thesis in the light of New Materialisms to analyze the materiality of language in conceptual art. For the new materialists, the agency of matter is a key notion that is as essential as the agency of humans. The active-passive relations between humans and things are denied by the new materialists. In this context, humans are also things. The New Materialisms offer a new ontological way to view things resulting in critique of Descartism. The notion of things does not need a form to occupy space at a certain time. It can be, in other words, fields of force or energy. Also, the relations among things can be considered as the energies flowing invisibly from one field to another. Thus, in my painting, I try to open the bodies of the figures and paint them as fields in order to reconstruct the relations between humans and space, especially the natural environment around them.

 

This interpretation of the obscure and contingent relations between humans and nature shows an anthropocentrism attitude. It can also be used to see the current situation caused by the corona virus – the tiny virus, occupying so less space, now is able to reveal its invisible enormous thing-power to the human community. This is an integral part of my recent works.

Entstanden in

mit Prof. Rolf Bier (Allgemeine künstlerische Ausbildung)
80 cm × 100 cm
120 cm × 100 cm
80 cm × 100 cm