Maja Rohwetter (GER) - Stene Projects

Maja Rohwetter (GER)
www.majarohwetter.de

The joy to find new and unknown worlds

I will begin to cast a first look at her works and the fact that I can hardly understand or interpret her works makes it possibly clear to me that one should think of her originality. So, I guess:

The first thesis:
Maja Rohwetter`s artistic work refers to complex, real or man-made virtual worlds. In addition, she fittingly bases her works on screenshots of 3D models, which display textures, and represent spatial configurations of her painting. Inspiration here can be gained both by going through the city as well as by roving in virtuality. Both, virtuality and urbanism are mixing here visibly.

The second thesis:
What is reflected in the pictures and films of the artist is the idea that our time is a time of exponentially increasing technical scopes of ability characterized by an exponentially growing chaos.

The Third thesis:
This growing chaos refers not only to the structure of cities or other social networks, but also influences the nature of our perceptions, our thoughts, our views and it provokes a feeling or even a sense of disorientation. The idea of chaos is frightening.

The Fourth thesis:
This fear of chaos is reflected in her works namely, in the sense that the works articulate a strongly dystopian air, a bad foreboding. However, this foreboding has an aesthetic charm.

The Fifth thesis:
The aesthetic charm – I would like to say – of the dystopian foreboding connotes that the creator feels like a prophet. Possibly Rohwetter wants to be a prophet, yet, it might be subconsciously so. Rather, she seems to have been moved and to have felt the increasing complexity of the world.

Opposition:
However, the socially critical moment of her works is not always prevailing. Here, on the other hand, one will often find a joy in the new, unknown worlds, a willingness to dive into them and above all: to look at them carefully.

Art reflects the current time. Our world, where more and more virtuality is created and more and more communication processes are happening via virtual media, seems to be reflected in Rohwetter’s art. Maybe here, just a new door of art is opened. Hence the falsification of end of art. / Wilken Wehrt Global Art Magazine

Space Oddity

Video Something somewhere, 2011

Something, somewhere, 2011
(installation view, Stene Projects, 2011