Objects and installation

Different fabrics are sewn together in a patchwork-like arrangement, forming organic shapes and connected to one another by fabric tubes, some of which are long. Various objects hang from the ceiling and are scattered across the floor. Something could flow through them; the eye follows the course of the channels and scans the shapes and textures of the surfaces.

The title ‘Skrandis’ is the Lithuanian word for stomach. Hannah Steinbrecher’s installation interprets the human digestive system as a network of forms and structures, creating a complex interweaving of individual elements and their interconnections.
This work by a Fine Art student at the Caspar David Friedrich Institute was created during an Erasmus placement at the Vilnius Academy of Arts in Vilnius, where the young artist explored textiles as an artistic medium. Alongside traditional textile materials, plastic and metal are also used. This combination of materials highlights the fact that artificial and industrially manufactured substances are increasingly becoming part of our inner selves. At the same time, the varying densities and surfaces of the materials used reflect the complexity of the digestive system and the cells and tissues involved in it.

With this installation, the Kunstkubus becomes a kind of body in which influences are absorbed and processed. The installation could thus also be understood as a metaphor for artistic work and art exhibitions themselves – external elements such as perceptions and themes are absorbed, pass through a process of sensations and reflections, are internally processed and thereby transformed – resulting in a form of energy that, in turn, triggers or sets other things in motion.