Florian Mehnert
Systems / Social Systems / Reference Systems / Perceptual Fields

Three fields across the practice.

Systems describes three interrelated perspectives within Florian Mehnert’s practice: Social Systems, Reference Systems Perceptual Fields

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Systems / Connections Forest Fragments, Elements, and Details Lockdown Woodcuts Light Drawings Data to Light Beauty of Privacy Forest Protocols Humantracks Freedom 2.0 Archive of Possible Lives 11 Days Smartphone Stacks Refugee Stacks Social Distance Stacks OBSERVATION / ANALYSIS PAINTING LINE / SPACE LIGHT / STRUCTURE DRAWING / ETCHING DATA / LINE DATA STRUCTURE PUBLIC SPACE PRIVACY SURVEILLANCE DECISION / RESPONSIBILITY REMOTE CONTROL PRIVACY PARADOX INDIVIDUAL / SYSTEM PARTICIPATION ISOLATION MIGRATION / POSTCOLONIALISM IDENTITY / PROJECTION / ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE MOVEMENT TRACES Iceland Project COMMUNICATION / SELF-REPRESENTATION Pantera Series SELF-STAGING / IDENTITY
A visitor opens a drawer in the Archive of Possible Lives installation
Archive of Possible Lives / Current work
01 / Social Systems

Social conditions become artistic material.

Social Systems is the main field of Florian Mehnert’s practice. Participatory installations, social sculptures and public experiments examine how technology, surveillance and collective behaviour shape freedom, privacy and responsibility.

Data to Light installation
02 / Reference Systems

Systems of reference become form.

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.

Forest, charcoal drawing by Florian Mehnert
03 / Perceptual Fields

Perception becomes a field.

Drawings, paintings, photographs and works on paper condense attention, materiality, gesture and spatial order into visual fields.

Method before medium

Systems: Social Systems / Reference Systems / Perceptual Fields.

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AI, Data and Society brings together works from the three interrelated perspectives of Social Systems, Reference Systems and Perceptual Fields.

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