Jorinde Voigt
Absorbing Integral / Zenit XVI
Artist
Jorinde Voigt
(1977, Frankfurt am Main), German
Original Title
Absorbing Integral / Zenit XVI
Date2018
Mediumindia ink, gold leaf, pastel, oil chalks and graphite on paper
Dimensions140 × 219,5 cm
Classificationsdrawings
Credit LineKunsthalle Praha
DescriptionJorinde Voigt is a German contemporary artist. She creates drawings, evocative audio recordings, and diagrams marked by a distinctive dynamism and fluidity. Using a subtle and meticulous system of signification, she visualizes natural and psychological events and the internal mechanisms of phenomena, most commonly exploring music and philosophy. In 2002, she abandoned photography and started engaging with drawing, which became essential to the development of her artistic practice. While her early work referenced specific cultural objects and texts, her later work thematizes immersion and complete absorption, exploring various mental images, the sensitivity of the body, and the accumulation of impressions which facilitate a state of immersion. The color covering a white sheet of paper determines the atmosphere or emotional orientation of a given work. This surface is then embellished with gold, aluminum, and copper, which shape the final composition. Each delicately applied color or line combines elements of gesturalism and empiricism, rooted in culture, science, music, history, literature, and philosophy.
The feeling of immersion is something we can encounter in various contexts, and which can often be near-impossible to express in words. Such an experience absorbs the individual and can be described as a feeling of complex presence through which the person is transported to a different space. Voigt’s immersions demonstrate that while a moment and our experience and perceptions of it can be described, the unceasing flow of time renders it elusive—consequently, the challenge of portraying a moment becomes one of depicting the invisible. The given experience can therefore be represented as a constantly transforming image of an intangible, dynamic, and constantly escaping state of being. Decentralized mental landscapes reveal the unconscious and intersubjective, as evidenced by their accessibility through emotional perception. Immersive Integral/Zenit XVI (2018) is part of Voigt’s series Immersive, in which golden reflections, seemingly floating on a blue background, create an appearance of quiet movement.
Jorinde Voigt (*1977, Frankfurt am Main) works in Berlin. She studied philosophy and modern German literature and music at the University of Göttingen, and later visual arts at the Royal Academy of Arts in London. Her works are included in the collections of institutions such as the Centre Pompidou in Paris, the Museum of Modern Art in New York City, and the Art Institute of Chicago. Since 2014, she has been teaching conceptual drawing and painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich.
The feeling of immersion is something we can encounter in various contexts, and which can often be near-impossible to express in words. Such an experience absorbs the individual and can be described as a feeling of complex presence through which the person is transported to a different space. Voigt’s immersions demonstrate that while a moment and our experience and perceptions of it can be described, the unceasing flow of time renders it elusive—consequently, the challenge of portraying a moment becomes one of depicting the invisible. The given experience can therefore be represented as a constantly transforming image of an intangible, dynamic, and constantly escaping state of being. Decentralized mental landscapes reveal the unconscious and intersubjective, as evidenced by their accessibility through emotional perception. Immersive Integral/Zenit XVI (2018) is part of Voigt’s series Immersive, in which golden reflections, seemingly floating on a blue background, create an appearance of quiet movement.
Jorinde Voigt (*1977, Frankfurt am Main) works in Berlin. She studied philosophy and modern German literature and music at the University of Göttingen, and later visual arts at the Royal Academy of Arts in London. Her works are included in the collections of institutions such as the Centre Pompidou in Paris, the Museum of Modern Art in New York City, and the Art Institute of Chicago. Since 2014, she has been teaching conceptual drawing and painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich.
