“REPLICATION”, Kesselhaus Linden boiler house, Hannover.

The Kunstverein Kunsthalle Hannover presented Replication, an extensive multimedia project at the Kesselhaus Linden. Its subject is replication, or reproduction: as in viral processes, the ability of a system to make copies of itself. The artists used the replication of digital data and algorithms to build complex structures of generative art.

The title held together the four works shown on each side of the boiler house over three evenings in October. Marjam Oskoui and Anne Nissen worked mainly with rear projections from inside, through the windows on the east and west sides; the guest team Brück / Krasuk and Harro Schmidt projected complex visual worlds from outside onto the north and south sides, accompanied by sound and soundscapes.

Florencia S.M. Brück’s installation is an interactive digital painting that captures light, the visual “impression”, in its changing qualities, and the moment beyond the forms that underlie it. Like the work of Munch, Vincent van Gogh or Monet, it accentuates the passage of time, and it makes the movement of the audience a crucial element of perception and experience: participants alter the painting with any light source.

The artist

Florencia S.M. Brück is a multidisciplinary artist working with sculpture, photography, painting, programming languages, sound and video. She is perhaps most widely known for the vibrant pliage sculpted paintings of her 2019 installation during the Venice Art Biennale. Recurring motifs run through her work, from transforming planes to the matrix of time that underlies all universes. Her enduring fascination with death, time and parallel universes led to her installation NDA (Near Death Experience), in which a visual algorithm splits the human shape into two spectrums to recreate her own near-drowning at the age of five: the recognisable figure is transformed into a timeless spiritual moment. The folding and unfolding canvases of Tension and Interlude are another form of her exploration of articulated planes and natural systems of webs.

Details

• Artists: Florencia Brück, Javier Krasuk, Anne Nissen, Marjam Oskoui and Harro Schmidt
• Curated by Harro Schmidt
• 8–10 October 2021, 7–10 pm
• Kesselhaus Linden, Zur Bettfederfabrik 3, 30451 Hanover
• Kunsthalle Hannover · Kulturzentrum Faust