OVERLAP

2024

_COLLABORATION
with MATTHIS FRICKHŒFFER

_MATERIAL
Aluminium extrusion profil
Tillanzia
Orchids

_DIMENSIONS
35 m²

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_ON VIEW
Studio 45
Wendenstraße 45
20097 Hamburg


_IMAGE CREDIT
Tom Nestler

_TYP

The installation OVERLAP combines modular design with living flora, a dialogue between the biological system of plant material and the seemingly lifeless aluminum.

The presented material matters are systems, they follow a logic and interact with space. 
“A system is a group of interacting or interrelated elements that act according to a set of rules to form a unified whole.”
(Merriam-Webster)
A system, situated in a space, can be defined by its boundaries, structure and purpose, and is expressed in its functioning and self-preservation.

The aluminum profiles are originally developed to production facility lines. Intrinsically their purpose is to give space to a secondary system. This secondary system which initially would hold the means of production gets replaces by plants – flowers. Both realms of objects now share the same place, they interact, they overlap.

Natural and artificial is not oppositional, it’s dialectical.