 Renate Moritz central theme is the human figure in motion. Motion is understood as travel, the figure, being in a state of constant travel. As electronic media allows the figure to move outside the constraints of gravity and mass, namely via projection, a whole new visual vocabulary is in the making. Static perspective, foreground, middle ground, background, proportion and mass, related to a static view point, space, seen in the context of the cube, orientation, indicating a vertical or horizontal axis, motion, related to the pull of gravity, seem not to be applicable anymore. The question, where is the figure today and what is its fundamental condition is RM’s focus throughout. In all her work the figure is not identified by location, but moves in an open-ended expanse, marking a trail, which is its pathway. The pathway becomes the message of the figure, the pathway is the figure.
In ‘Walking Drawings’, a film installation and collaboration with Evewright, huge drawings are laid by the artists in sand. These lines become the pathways of 60 figures, entering the drawings, not by description, but by walking the lines.
In a kite installation the figure is seen traveling via a kite, forming a dish, collecting data through it’s reflective surface.
In most recent multi media prints, the figure travels in a floating, circling motion within a ring as its vehicle, producing trail shapes, pathways in most exquisite textures. |
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