Recurring structures across the practice.
Systems describes the recurring structures that connect drawings, installations, data works and participatory projects across the practice: perception, observation, participation, spatial translation and social interaction.
Perception becomes a field.
Drawings, paintings and works on paper condense density, trace, movement and interruption into material systems. They are not secondary to the installations; they are the concentrated visual form of the same method.
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Observation changes what it observes.
Forest, screen, city and body appear as spaces of reading. Surveillance, traces and public attention become visible as spatial and social arrangements.
Participation is part of the material.
The public does not only look at the work. It produces the conditions through which the work becomes readable: decision, risk, distance, empathy, freedom and exposure.
Data becomes line, light and space.
Digital information is not shown as technical spectacle. It is translated into drawings, movement profiles, light structures and spatial situations that bodies can physically encounter.
Collective conditions become visible.
Privacy, migration, pandemic distance, artificial intelligence and the desire for freedom are approached as systems of relation. The works create situations in which these pressures can be seen, felt and negotiated.
Across media, Mehnert turns systems into situations: drawings condense perception, data becomes spatial structure, and participation exposes how control, freedom and social behaviour are produced.
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