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.
mail@philippmodersohn.org
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