Participating artists:Göksu Baysal, Sophia Hallmann, Nanna Kaiser, Lasse Müller, Bianca Phos, Anna Raoh, Aylin Derya Stahl, Leah Zhang
curated by Helena McFadzean
Period (opening hours):Fri - Sun, 15:00-18:00 and by appointment
Venue:Techne Sphere Leipzig
Niemeyerstraße 2-5
04179 Leipzig
www.technesphere.deIn a world characterised by acceleration and digital smoothness, Material Shift focuses on what resists compression. The exhibition asks: How do time, memory and transformation leave traces in the material world?Göksu Baysal, Sophia Hallmann, Lasse Müller, Anna Raoh and Aylin Derya Stahl from Berlin, Nanna Kaiser and Bianca Phos from Vienna and Leah Zhang from Amsterdam combine photography and sculpture to create new hybrid forms, work with moulds and place materials in unusual contexts. Their works show what eludes visibility: Residues, imprints, afterimages. Materials become actors: they bear traces of use, heat and transformation and tell of processes that go beyond the obvious.
"Material Shift" shows how human behaviour is alienated from natural and digital systems.
The exhibition takes place in the Techne Sphere Leipzig, a functioning industrial area in which handmade machines are created. Materiality can be experienced here: friction, labour and transformation are present.
