Systems of society, perception and participation.
Systems describes three interrelated perspectives within Florian Mehnert’s practice: Perceptual Fields, Reference Systems and Social Systems.
Archive of Possible Lives examines what happens when AI continues the narratives of our lives. In a walk-in archive, six drawers reveal fragments of a possible biography and turn identity into a field of unrealized possibilities.
Archive of Possible Lives
A physical archive of drawers, AI-generated text fragments and algorithmic narration. Each visitor collects a possible life that was never lived, yet remains conceivable.
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Light Drawings
Drawn lines become walkable fields of colour, reflection and spatial perception.
Systems describes three interrelated perspectives within Florian Mehnert’s practice: Perceptual Fields, Reference Systems and Social Systems. Across drawings, photography, paintings, installations, light works and participatory projects, these structures repeatedly reappear in different forms.
Perceptual Fields
Drawings, works on paper, paintings and image based works condense perception, attention and spatial order.
02 / Reference Systems
Reference Systems
Reference Systems explores the often invisible structures through which we make sense of reality and orient ourselves within it. Coordinates, movement data and technological infrastructures are translated into line, light, image and space. The works give abstract relationships a sensory form and investigate how technical systems shape our perception and actions.
03 / Social Systems
Social Systems
Participatory installations and social experiments examine control, freedom, distance and collective behavior.
A focused selection of works that trace Mehnert’s analysis of data, perception, control and social space.
Humantracks
A multi channel video installation examining smartphones as instruments of surveillance and the loss of privacy.
Public Space / Big Data
Freedom 2.0
A participatory social sculpture on Big Data, freedom and the movement traces of citizens in public space.
Social System
11 Days
A radical installation on distance, technological control and the ethical collapse between action and consequence.
Forest / Surveillance
Waldprotokolle
A surveillance intervention in natural space, turning the forest into a field of protocols, listening and threatened privacy.
Perceptual Field
Forest
Charcoal drawings and works on paper in which perception, nature and spatial density become structured fields.
Data / Space
Data to Light
Invisible data infrastructures are translated into a permanent walk through spatial system of light.