design notes
With her works and installations, the Berlin-based artist Friederike Klotz has created a sort of experimental laboratory to study human behavior, the management of group dynamics, and the future development of cities, nature, and society. Three-dimensional freestanding and wall-mounted objects map out complex worlds that consistently elude spectators’ attempts at conceptualization by using a variety of optical effects, distortion, magnification, miniaturization, mirroring, and movement. The kinetic objects, sound sculptures, drawings, and collages combine into an unsettling miniature universe, whose anonymous, deindividualized inhabitants seem to be controlled by an invisible power. Friederike Klotz uses very simple materials such as commonplace plastic wrapping and found objects to develop elaborate instruction models that have the potential to raise relevant questions about the state of play in our society where electronic systems ensure absolute control and total surveillance.
Exhibition: Kunstmuseum Bochum (Germany), June 12 – August 29, 2021