RIP & Rewired

Iconic motifs from art history form the starting point of this series. In a first step, they are digitally altered, deliberately shifting their original visual impact. The subsequent print transfers the image from the screen into a physical object – creating the basis for further intervention.

The surface is then intentionally worked on: with water, with staining substances such as coffee or paprika, carrot juice and spinach through cuts and tears. The familiar motif loses its flawless surface and becomes materially tangible. What appears intact is torn apart – ripped – in order to be reconsidered and rebuilt.

The fragments are stitched back together with gold-colored thread, partially accented with gold leaf and sealed. The ruptures remain visible; the interventions are not concealed. In this sense, each work follows the logic of “RIP & Rewired”: disruption as method, reconstruction as statement.

Between digital source, physical disruption and manual reconstruction, a new object emerges – not a reproduction of the original, but an independent, transformed version.