Gefüge / cloud

„Cloud“ is an amorphic, kinetic sculpture made of metal mesh, that enrolls a momentary social constellation, but also follows its own, pulsating logic. The mesh reacts to changes in the electric field caused by the presence of people and other factors in the room. This generates breathing movements, that vary in intensity and direction and are manifested in the shape of the metal mesh over a longer period of time. Contrasting the heavy materiality of the metal, the sculpture forms a flooating object in a random accumulation of fine, conductive threads in motion. The mesh becomes vivid matter, apparently essential, and interrogates a reference system of anthropomorphic interpretation. Electricity is not just a tool or a means to an end, it is artistic material and as a physical medium a central player in the object. Donna Haraway calls this an „anorganic negotiator in processes and structures."