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HERBARIUM OF NEOPHYTES

‚HERBARIUM OF NEOPHYTES‘
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In the studio, new plant objects made from various organic materials are created on a lighttable for a short period of time. Inspired by the aesthetics of Leonhart Fuchs or Maria Sibylla Merian, the manifold details, structures, and surfaces are presented in an almost hyperreal form. However, upon closer inspection, fractures and impossibilities in the statics, form, and color become apparent.

With AI, the next major leap in design, interaction, and consumption seems to be just around the corner. All the more reason, in my view, to approach this phenomenon within my artistic practice in the most direct and intuitive way possible—through collected, analogue materials. At a table, I dry, preserve, and manually arrange individual plant parts. I gather these fragments from various places: biodegradable waste from cemeteries, cuttings from organic waste bins, or surplus flowers discarded by the local florist. After photographing them, I rearrange the flowers using my own LoRA-based AI model, which continuously learns from all the neophytes I have created so far (as seen in the animation on the right).

The images shown are just a small selection of the entire series. All works are copyright protected, and any reproduction without the artist’s permission is strictly prohibited.

Thoughts on Arte Povera

Print on Hahnemühle FineArt Baryta
size: 45x60cm

Formative Memory

Print on Hahnemühle FineArt Baryta
size: 45x60cm

ORBI.TAL

Sound installation for VIDEOTEXT Festival

DRAWING

Eni Brandner’s hand-drawn animated video „Drawing“ begins with a single line, which gradually evolves into a form—continuously developing until a dynamic space of diverse objects emerges.

The soundscape is based on recordings made during my stay abroad in Klaipeda, Lithuania, in collaboration with students from the painting class. Contact microphones were attached to the students‘ drawing boards to capture the sounds of their pencils.

The audio track starts with isolated scratching sounds. Gradually, the lines grow longer, and the frequency of strokes increases. What begins as scattered sounds evolves into a complex sonic texture. Occasionally, small sound figures emerge, much like Eni’s visual figures, only to dissolve almost immediately.

HYBRID

Florian Gruber ́s „Print Series“ draws on the language of cinema and of comics; these Works – C-Prints on Aluminium reproduce a new spatial location. Based on formal elements taken from the visual code of comics – arrows, parallel strockes, diagonal strokes to stress something characteristic – these surface look like sequences of a story, like a succession of events. The fractured shapes convey a sense of mement, acceleration and simultaneity, and are shown like film views shot from extremely high or low angels, or using a focus emphasizing some elements at the expense of others.

Pia Jardi

DA & DORT

C-Prints behind acryl 50x50cm

The work „DA & DORT“ is a thematic exploration of the mountainscape in the region Oberpinzgau, Salzburg . Our perception of these landscapes is shaped by our own memories and experiences, serving as a canvas for personal, often idealized, desires and imaginations.

However, upon closer inspection, small inconsistencies, repetitive images, and impossible spatial conflicts emerge, creating a sense of unease and challenging our perception. The mountain and the landscape oscillate between being a natural habitat and a societal construct.

Sound AVENUE

For the Sound Avenue, the entire exhibition space of the Austrian Cultural Forum in Warsaw was outfitted with 12 speakers. The arrangement and spacing of the speakers were then carefully documented on a plan.

Using six stereo recording devices, the positions of the speakers were replicated in public spaces, maintaining the exact distances and positions relative to one another. This created a three-dimensional auditory representation of the recorded locations.

When these recordings are played back in the exhibition space, two different and competing spaces emerge. The actual visual space and the auditory space, which was recorded in a different architectural setting. Walls disappear, streets and pathways emerge—the soundscape overlays the physical space and interacts with it as soon as a visitor enters the installation.