Exposition

Metabolic Drawings – Or: Drawing metabolic (2024)

Teresa Mayr

About this exposition

Hilma af Klint (1862-1944) is considered a pioneer of abstract painting. However, she herself hardly saw her artistic works as products or opus, but rather as a coherent system. Accordingly, the contribution presents and unfolds af Klint's paintings as an alternative version of modernism, an ecosystem or digestive system. This also takes up the mediumistic origin of the paintings: af Klint visualises transcendental messages. Looking forward and seeking out new possibilities (Bashkoff, 2018), she paints for a future that she perceives clairvoyantly. In text and images, the piece "Metabolic Drawings – Or: Drawing metabolic" develops a speculative landscape that follows the images and convictions of Hilma af Klint: Historical facts are interwoven with pictorial descriptions and culminate in a utopian or dystopian future. Theoretical approaches from Queer Studies and Speculative Feminism are adopted to critically question the reception of af Klint's paintings and of herself. In a way, the essay can be seen as a digestion of digestion.
typeresearch exposition
keywordsHilma af Klint, New Materialism, Speculative Feminism, Critical History, Modernism
date10/12/2024
published12/12/2024
last modified12/12/2024
statuspublished
share statusprivate
affiliationBauhaus-University Weimar
copyrightTeresa MAyr
licenseCC BY-NC-ND
languageEnglish
urlhttps://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/2755041/2755042
published inHUB - Journal of Research in Art, Design and Society
portal issue3. HUB Issue #3 / Autumn 2024 / Metabolic Media
external linkhttps://teresamayr.com/


Copyrights


Comments are only available for registered users.