Katharina Zimmerhackl

54 Stillstandsstudien

This work is part of an ongoing research into aspects of animal behaviour as a symbol for modern humanity and subjectivity as well as the relationship between human and nature and takes its starting point from the moths’ attraction to light: Lured into human territories by artificial light, they become increasingly disorientedand exhaust themselves trying to regain orientation. They fall into a state of shock and remain in a resting position, while usually dying slowly in this "petrified" state, so that their lifeless bodies can be picked up from the ground a few days later. I began to pick up the moths that „got lost“ in my studio. The moths I collected were scanned and their dying postures were graphically analysed. These graphic posture analyses, in which the dead bodies of the moths are transformed into poetic symbols/language signs – signs that can also be understood as gestural notations – were then converted into a large-format series of pencil drawing.

series of 54 drawings (each 64x90cm), pencil on paper | 2020

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Analysis of the moths gestures
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Drawing Nr. 16,7,21,14,5,19,42&46
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