Converging Elements exhibition posters

Posters for the exhibition Converging Elements at Backshop, Brunnenstraße 107, Berlin.

The five exhibiting artists Nikolai Frerichs, Clemens Fischer, Yumo Wu, Moritz Jekat, and Ilse Kind investigate the in-between of nature and technology.

Kubaparis, an online platform that promotes and exhibits art online, describes the project as follows:

Observing nearby objects causes your eyes to converge and point inward. Two lines of vision that meet in a point very close by. This show is looking at the convergence of technology and nature as two elements that orbit around one an other. Their interdependency in one space results in a slowly approaching meeting point.

Unstable assemblages of ancient wood build structures which autonomously produce images from C. Fischer, are in dialogue with negative photographs of Y. Wu that play with the boundary of perception within the human brain, as they appear as positives images in front our eyes. Meanwhile Sculptures and fragile canvas engravings of teeth, seemingly exposed to never ending growth, by N. Frerichs ask questions about the contradiction of technology as a destroyer and potential savior of nature. On the other end we meet an Avatar speaking about it’s deep subconscious feelings and thinking about its life before its birth, embedded into a wooden triptychon meeting with 3d printed “constructed emotions” by M. Jekat.

The design uses Cobra from Storm Type foundry and OO Arketa, a monospace font by Outline Online (Laura Csocsán and Samira Schneuwly). The pixel numbers are from a custom-built, unreleased font of Laura Csocsán, included in the design specifically for this project.