STATEMENT OF WORK

Silke Weißbach employs a material-based approach to seamlessly integrate her ideas into painting, sculpture and video-installation. Drawing on concepts of light, colour and liquids, she weaves hybrid material assemblages blending emotions, language, memory, sounds, and images with elements of the natural world to catalyst environments beyond consciousness.

In her practice, she combines traditional and modern alchemical processes taken from craft, mysticism, and techno-culture such as crystallisation, distillation, conservation and extraction besides CGI and 3D-printing to process organic ingredients like herbs, hormones, fungi, flowers, fruits, sugar, formula milk, wine, and wax towards uncharted material environments. These nourished entanglements conjure ethereal artefacts and speculative realms blurring the lines between the natural, the synthetic, and the mystical.

Surfaces go deeper than we think – cracks, scars, and tissues serve as gateways into realms of our biological, historical, and cultural origins. Built upon a desire to redirect deeply inherited opinions of the porous and malleable worlds we navigate through, her elements operate between compounds and codes. By deciphering information from our past, present, and future, she unveils the interconnection and intraconnection of our existence, challenges conventional belief systems while guiding us to retrace our natural belonging to the world.