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Oxide crude steel frame, hahnemühle watercolor paper
laser engravings
74 x 48 cm
29 1/8 x 18 7/8 inches
Photo: Dirk Tacke
FREEZEFRAME I & II
laser engravings, 2024
Exhibition: Symbiotic Beings at maxgoelitz Munich,
w/ Natacha Donzé, Rindon Johnson and Haroon Mirza
13 March - 4 May 2024
symbiotic beings
13 March - 4 May 2024, Munich
The exhibition "symbiotic beings" with Natacha Donzé, Rindon Johnson, Haroon Mirza and Justin Urbach explores a complex harmony of organic and human-made systems. In their works, biological, botanical or celestial structures merge with synthetic and industrial elements and materials. These connections illustrate that even seemingly contradictory elements can be in a mutually beneficial relationship. At the same time, the group exhibition explores the question of whether and how technology and nature can coexist, presenting symbiotic processes and transformative potentials in the works of four artists who work on the threshold between biological and social structures, the physical and the fictional, the analog and the digital.
The wall pieces "FreezeFrame I" (2024) and "FreezeFrame II" (2024), made of laser-engraved paper, are framed with raw steel and feature images of MRI scans and graphics derived from medical data obtained during the examination of human brains. These works are part of the artistic complex "Fractal Breeze", at the center of which stands a video installation: a metafictional representation depicting a technological future where two characters navigate the boundaries of virtuality and reality. In "Fractal Breeze", silicon, the raw material used in microchip production, enables the transition into a hybrid world where virtual spheres increasingly materialize, and the characters experience a new corporeality. Through the symbiotic connection of body and technology, a transhuman cycle emerges, pointing to societal developments and the multidimensional processes of resource extraction and energy storage. Body-related data of the performers, collected through MRI scans, 3D scans, and motion capture, integrated into the video, are transferred by Urbach into other works across various media. In "FreezeFrame I" and "FreezeFrame II", paper becomes the storage medium, laser-burning cross-sections, data, and patterns to depict the synergy between the body and technologized processes. The cinematic narration, factually tied to the real world through medical data, is in turn translated into the analog in "FreezeFrame I" and "FreezeFrame II", thus becoming their material artifact.
