Artist Statement

Defekte Wahrscheinlichkeit
Monika Rinck


Jutta-Cuny-Franz
Memorial Award
Helmut Ricke



[mis]perception and [dis]place[ment]

A desire to undermine spatial certitude is central to my work.

Roaming freely amongst the diverse fields of perceptual theory, brain research,
molecular biology, geophysics and contemporary architecture my objects
erode physical and mental harmony and order into a subversive, flexible chaos.

High tech materials, photographs, everyday objects discarded by the city
and building materials such as steel, glass and plexiglass assume abstract
geometrical formations which penetrate, distort and fractionalize the space
around them, forcing its lability.
The constructions themselves are destabilized by light, projections and shadows.

Illusion, delusion, mutation – material and immaterial constructs intermingle
and become indistinguishable. One is forced into psychological realms where
the dynamics of seeing are disrupted and inner safeties are lost.