SHAPING TRANSITION

Frappant Gallery • Hamburg / Germany • 2025

The exhibition Shaping Transition is dedicated to the theme of transition. Through drawing, object, installation, sound, performance, and video, the artists Elena Greta Falcini, Katherina Heil, Alexander Johannes Heil, and Liv Pedersen explore how transformation can become visible and tangible. The focus lies on the “in-between” — those moments in which something is in process and resists fixed categorization.

The exhibition is made possible with the kind support of Frappant Galerie, Behörde für Kultur und Medien Hamburg, Claussen-Simon-Stiftung, and Mondriaan Fonds.

For the exhibition at Frappant, I explore transitions between different media within my practice — how drawing, text, sound, and movement can influence and transform into one another. The starting point is my drawing practice, where lines, gestures, symbols, and textual elements already contain the potential for movement and bodily expression. At Frappant, I want to translate these graphic and textual elements into voice, movement, and object.

The installation includes three large-scale drawings presented as rolled papers standing in the space like columns. A vinyl record will also be shown and played, on which I have carved a single line; through the turntable, this line becomes audible. In addition, texts that are part of the performative process will be placed in the space as a printed and glued block, likely on a pedestal.

A central element of the work is a performance with three performers. They will interact with the texts, sounds, and drawings, translating the texts into voice and movement while physically engaging with the drawings. They wrap themselves in the papers, bend and fold them, creating new paper objects that remain in the space as sculptural traces. The performers wear white suits that absorb the drawings’ pigment; after the performance, these suits also become part of the installation.

In this way, the installation is completed through performance: it is activated, transformed, and expanded by new elements. What remains are the traces of the actions and the video documentation.

I am interested in the moment when a drawing becomes sculpture, how a drawn gesture can manifest physically and sonically in space, and how text can become material. A line can become movement, a word an object, a voice a drawing — and vice versa. The work is conceived as an open process that reveals the translation between media and makes visible how meaning, form, and material continuously shift into one another.