FRANZISKA FRINGS - consent not to be a single one

Franziska Frings
consent not to be a single one

Sweaty and exhausted, they stand there. Surrounded by solidified waves. They threaten, they threaten to burst above them. Time rubs the surfaces rough. It scrapes away the layers. Burst open in some places. Cracks open overnight. Something looms over them in repose. Part by part it spirals upwards. The gaze wanders further, gets caught in the folds. Layer upon layer.

Starting with two found objects from a shipyard, Franziska Frings deals in her series of works with the imprinting of surfaces and the emergence and transformation of form. History carves itself into the material. Frings imitates the cracks and traces of the found objects. In this way she transports information from one surface to another. Under the physical effort with which the artist works the clay, further codings are added.

Worked in the same constant movement, the clay winds itself into new forms. The result is a series of identical yet independent elements. In obsessive repetition, the artist assures herself of the forms she imitates and updates at the same time. Change creeps in.

The slow creative process holds the possibility of opposing the rush of the present. The material in its idiosyncrasy resists acceleration. Each work is the result of a negotiation with the material. Pressed in, intertwined and twisted, the form grinds itself into form: consent not to be a single one.

Text by Asta von Mandelsloh & Claas Oberstadt

Franziska Frings
born in Düsseldorf, Germany
lives and works in Vienna and Berlin
2013-2017: Berlin Technical University of the Arts, BA in Photography
since 2019: Academy of Fine Arts Vienna

Duration: June 11 - July 30, 2021
Exhibition views by Eva Kelety