Florian Mehnert
Systems / Perceptual Fields / Reference Systems / Social Systems

Three fields across the practice.

Systems describes three interrelated perspectives within Florian Mehnert’s practice: Perceptual Fields, Reference Systems and Social Systems.

Large drawing by Florian Mehnert Data to Light installation Social Distance Stacks with Ballett Stuttgart Archive of Possible Lives installation
Forest drawing by Florian Mehnert
01 / Perceptual Fields

Perception becomes a field.

Drawings, paintings, photographs and works on paper condense attention, materiality, gesture and spatial order into visual fields.

Data to Light installation
02 / Reference Systems

Systems of reference become form.

Reference Systems explores the often invisible structures through which we make sense of reality and orient ourselves within it. Coordinates, movement data and technological infrastructures are translated into line, light, image and space. The works give abstract relationships a sensory form and investigate how technical systems shape our perception and actions.

Social Distance Stacks installation
During the 2020 pandemic, Social Distance Stacks project, LfDI Stuttgart
03 / Social Systems

Collective conditions become visible.

Participatory works, installations and public experiments examine social behaviour, observation, control, privacy and collective responsibility.

Method before medium

Systems: Perceptual Fields / Reference Systems / Social Systems.

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Thematic focus

AI, Data and Society brings together works from the three interrelated perspectives of Perceptual Fields, Reference Systems and Social Systems.

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