Luisa Heinz l Becoming Creature l Diffring Preis für Skulptur 2025
In the organizer's words:
In her works, Luisa Heinz explores the boundary between human and non-human beings, not least in order to overcome the anthropocentric perspective. In her works, she subjects clothing and masks in particular to a process of transformation as a "second skin". The intuitive, creative process is in dialog with conceptually oriented research that integrates both purely theoretical and body-oriented elements. Heinz perceives the present as crisis-ridden and asks in her works "what it means to be an evolving, conscious person today who lives and grows in relation to themselves and their environment". Here she also sees the relationship to the work of Jacqueline Diffring, who, in her time and under the conditions of the great civilization crisis of National Socialism and World War II, had to laboriously work out the presence of her artistic language.
The theoretical starting point of Luisa Heinz's work is her preoccupation with philosophical questions about the foundations of human existence and existence in a threatened ecosphere. Heinz translates this theory-led discourse into a working method that combines sculptural, performative and cinematic elements. Following artistic predecessors such as Joseph Beuys, she repeatedly uses clothing, masks and fabrics as metaphors to illustrate processes of individual mutability and collective development under varying auspices. She sees her own body as a point of reference for her artistic work. In addition to the ability to constantly reflect on one's own being and will, Heinz considers the experience of self-efficacy to be decisive, which contributes to the creation of diverse levels of interaction, as well as leading the individual back to themselves. Heinz finds impressive images for the complexity and dynamics of these networks of relationships.
Location: Cabinet exhibition
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