Artist Talk anlässlich der Ausstellung “My face isn’t facing and my mind isn’t minding”

In the organizer's words:

We cordially invite you to an artist talk on the occasion of the exhibition "My face isn't facing and my mind isn't minding" with the artist Stina Hellmann.

The realities that were valid just a few years ago are disappearing or fading. Algorithms created by humans and increasingly by artificial intelligence are supposed to make life easier, but on the other hand they prevent us from breaking out of our own filter bubble.

In these times, there is a need for questions that occupy Stina Hellmann. The question of beauty, for example, which has always been a questionable state of human perception. What constitutes beauty? Where do our senses get ahead of us and where are the programs, apps and tools that have been designed to optimize our appearance on the web? Why do glitches arise that only reveal to us at third or fourth glance that every virtual-visual reality is ultimately only made up of pixels? Stina searches for the errors and potentials in the programs and images and reinforces them for us.

Time and again, real time sequences or documentations appear in her works. They are often the starting points for her questions, which are always about working through reality in digital processes, creating new perspectives and establishing the humanity in these elements.

Imagine if many recordings of the same piece of music by different artists were layered on top of each other, the result would probably be white noise at some point. What about pictures and films? The recognizability is distorted to the point of being unrecognizable.

Only in the empty spaces that need to be discovered can we see our attitude to society itself questioned.

Stina lets us search, but without claiming that we must also find. But if we see ourselves in her works as part of a pictorial process, then these mostly digital works take on a depth of meaning that lies beyond habits and conventions.