SPATIAL DRIFT

Ex-Girlfriend • Berlin / Germany • 2020

The human eye, engaging its precise and intricate components, focuses light travelling and reflecting at 299 792 458 meters per second into a single point on the surface of our ocular membranes. It is at this point where science and fiction meet, our optic nerves then serving as a courier for transformation, whereby information morphs into consciousness and our environment becomes malleable. It is in this expanded conceptual space between pure objectivity and subjectivity that we find the intersections of real, manufactured, and imagined natures and their representations– the conceptual basis for Exgirlfriend’s fifth exhibition of the 2019/2020 season, Spacial Driftwith works by Andrea Acosta and Katherina Heil. 

Both artists present works which are a re-imagining of the universe and all its phenomena, both physical and metaphysical. Acosta and Heil’s distinct approaches regarding organic and inorganic materials, constructed environments, installations and digital spaces, and the representation of produced and reproduced natural forms constructs a new imagined space with its own axiomatic system within the confining walls of Exgirlfriend.