trockenleitung_NET, 2023
trockenleitung_GRID, 2023
trockenleitung_TUBE, 2023
trockenleitung_TUBE, 2024
trockenleitung_CRADLE, 2024
digital pigment print
on light box film
137, 2 x 127,8 cm
Auflage 3 + 2 AP
Exhibition View
CIRCUIT
studio im HOCHHAUS, Berlin
29.11.2023 – 6.2.2024
In the GRID series of works, interconnected everyday objects expand in all directions and form a multi layered overall composition that is reminiscent of abstract paintings, such as the lyrical works of Kandinsky or those of Art Informel.
However, Britz does not paint with colour, but with the nature of the objects themselves, which he links together using a gestural language of lines. Exposed in front of a light-coloured background, the formations appear to be illuminated. As a result, the pigment prints are reminiscent of depictions of lattice structures, such as crystal or atomic lattices. While the models attempt to explain different material properties, Britz asserts a new kind of artistic materiality that arises from the synthesis of disparate objects.
Taken out of their original context of use, she charges the objects with a narrative. In the work trockenleitung_CRADLE, for example, an old broken cradle is given a surreal new lease of life along winding paths of red plastic pipes.
Improvised and organic, the structures seem to grow outwards from the centre. Each of these formations, which are thus also reminiscent of organisms, is different and is fuelled in its construction by the combination of contradictions and the play with dichotomies. These hybrid formations are simultaneously gestural and constructive, representational and abstract, fragmentary and holistic, as well as digital and analogue. Aspects of painting are combined with the appearance of photography and sculptural principles with graphic imagery.
Notations added to the photography with a computer mouse complement the shapes and take the strange organism a step further. What processes can be seen here and what is their purpose could be
questions that these constructions address to us and which are given their vitality by the reciprocal connotation of the objects.
As in a jazzy piece of music, the individual elements permeate each other. In the process, even the oblique sounds become living elements of the whole, which in this way retains its improvised charm