Systems of perception, participation and society.
Florian Mehnert develops visual, spatial and participatory works in which data, perception and collective behavior become experiential systems.
The work moves through three recurring modes: data structures, perceptual fields and social systems. Across drawings, photography, paintings, installations, light works and participatory projects, these structures repeatedly reappear in different forms.
Data Structures
Tracking, protocols, movement profiles and data flows become lines, images and spatial systems.
02 / Perceptual Fields
Perceptual Fields
Drawings, works on paper, paintings and image based works condense perception, attention and spatial order.
03 / Social Systems
Social Systems
Participatory installations and social experiments examine control, freedom, distance and collective behavior.
Archives of Possible Lives is an interactive AI supported installation in development. A walk-in archive of drawers, printed fragments and algorithmic narration turns biography into a field of probabilities.
Archives of Possible Lives
A physical archive of drawers, text fragments and algorithmic narration in which visitors enter possible biographical systems.
Practice
Systems as Form
Across media, invisible structures are translated into visual, spatial and social form.
A focused selection of works that trace Mehnert’s analysis of data, perception, control and social space.
Humantracks
A multi channel video installation examining smartphones as instruments of surveillance and the loss of privacy.
Public Space / Big Data
Freedom 2.0
A participatory social sculpture on Big Data, freedom and the movement traces of citizens in public space.
Social System
11 Days
A radical installation on distance, technological control and the ethical collapse between action and consequence.
Forest / Surveillance
Waldprotokolle
A surveillance intervention in natural space, turning the forest into a field of protocols, listening and threatened privacy.
Perceptual Field
Forest
Charcoal drawings and works on paper in which perception, nature and spatial density become structured fields.
Data / Space
Data to Light
Invisible data infrastructures are translated into a permanent walk through spatial system of light.