Structure in space and time

You can actively stride through space, measure and overcome distances, you can go in any direction and always return to the starting point, whereas time inevitably passes us by, second by second, the current moment becomes the past, just as irretrievably as the future remains out of reach until it passes us by for the duration of a mere blink of an eye, only to immediately move away from us again, out of reach. If this is how you understand our world, then you had better brace yourself, because our artist Christiane Fleissner removes any basis for this perception.

In her work, which also formally crosses the boundaries between sculpture and photography, the Munich-based artist understands time and space as an interdependent continuum, interwoven and inseparable. With her multi-layered overlays, Fleissner makes it possible to experience space-time, mathematically described in physics as four-dimensional Minkowski space, a construct that probably considerably exceeds the imagination of most of us, in a sensual way. Different time levels merge into a unified composition, spatial structures dissolve, proximity and depths exchange their roles depending on the perspective, as in a game of deception. In her work, the artist repeatedly highlights the supposedly simple, basic structures that shape our living space, repetitive patterns that could give us a sense of orientation in the world, but which, in the complexity of their interplay, rob us of any certainty about the relation of dimensions.

Learn more about the artist: Christiane Fleissner's artist page