Growth

‘Growth is the decisive driving force in all conceivable systems. Growth means change, development, progress and thus also the continuation of life’ as the artist explains.

Felix Schöppner’s Growth looks at the gradual translation of nature into the digital space, showing how photography can transform into a three-dimensional medium. Landscape photographs of national parks, symbolising a condensed form of a seemingly untouched environment, served as a starting point for the series. Schöppner collaged original photographs with objects collected from the sites and naturally produced building materials to restage impressions previously encountered in the natural world. The resulting sculptures are rigid bodies that harken back to nature in their form, while also starkly contrasting with it via their static construction, which forecloses the possibility of movement. Schöppner then transfers these objects into digital space, producing images that are a hybrid of three-dimensional renderings and photographs. These images question the definition of space and materiality and how they are processed by human perception.