Philipp Modersohn's sculptures and animated films highlight the vibrancy of things and matter.
By confronting these with human-made structures and systems of social organization, he questions the division between biology and geology,life and non-life, and the resulting hierarchy of forms of existence.

Currently, he works on a series of filmic ‘biographies of things':

The video witness interview (2020) opens the series by presenting six climate proxies, minerals and fossils that preserve characteristics of past climates.

In A Reporting Rock (2020), an anonymous stone is asked questions by an immigration office.

In Stone Trek (2021), a telescope spews soft and moving drill cores that subsequently explore their surroundings.

The Selfish Shellfish (2022) is the fictional self-portait of a barnacle between a dry, rock body and a wet, soft body.

news:
Comissioned by Filmallmend of Research Films, the film Unfiltered Smoke (2023) is screened as part of the Wind Tunnel Festival June 23 - 24, 2023, on the roof of Zurich University of the Arts.


Find a PDF Portfolio of works here.


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Galerie Guido W. Baudach


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