microforces, Nils Benedikt Fischer
opening: wednesday, 16.10.24, 17:00
exhibition: 17.10.24 - 30.11.24
wed-sat 12:00-18:00

Nils Benedikt Fischer (*1987 in Dessau) is a visual artist who combines sculpture, engineering and filmmaking. In his work he explores the boundaries and intersections between the self and technology as a dominant paradigm. Using contemporary manufacturing processes he designs technical artefacts that often preserve a personal sphere in the form of memories, narratives or dreams. Tailored for a single message, these artefacts break away from the system of technological mass production and therefore becoming objects with an own framework often
representing states of fragility and doubt. Born and raised in Dessau Fischer reflects on the search for identity and belonging and rises the question what can be done to find your place in a hyper regulated world.

Inhabited Basins (2024),  kinetic object.

Although natural forces are usually associated with powerful and destructive events, they are also the subtle processes that appear as early signs of things to come. The exhibition micro forces brings together two different series of technical objects that mimic the forces of nature (and their subtle omens) to reflect on processes of decision-making and how they shape one’s reality. The series Inhabited Basins (2024) takes the unpredictable ways of water as its language, to recollect past events. The works consist of basins filled with a cooling lubricant and platforms that set the basins in motion. Each basin moves at a certain speed and radius, creating its own temporal metric. The cooling liquids have varying degrees of turbidity and reveal or hide engravings on the inner side of the basins. Taking inspiration from oracle traditions, these
engravings show arrangements of biographically charged objects that were once at the center of a profound decision. For the exhibition, an additional basin was created in the middle of the installation, which bears a map in the form of an aluminum disc. It contains engravings of various landscapes related to the artist's biography. The overlapping maps lose their geographical validity and become an imaginary place of memory. The basin in the center of the disc refills regularly with the cooling liquid and eventually pours out onto various sections of the map. The liquid fills rivers and lakes and finally runs over the edge of the disk.

Inhabited Basins (2024),  kinetic object, colored liquid.

Flying Carpets (2024), kinetic obejct

To encounter the disturbed reflections of the past is also a central theme in the series Flying Carpets (2024) in which sheets of Kodak clear film move over polished aluminum plates. Each film contains the image of a space that was once inhabited by the artist. Through a process of
encryption, the original content has been transformed into patterns that resemble the geometry of carpets. Floating above the water-like aluminium surfaces these carpets being kept in a permanent dance with their own mirror images.

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