The Galerie Stadt Sindelfingen is presenting Hicham Berrada's first institutional solo exhibition in Germany.
Hicham Berrada’s artistic practice resembles that of a painter whose materials are not colour and canvas, but the natural laws to which reality and all matter observe. His installations, sculptures, videos and performances are based on scientific studies, which he uses to activate the forces of ecological processes and the elements.
While Berrada first defines certain parameters, he subsequently transfers control to the elemental force. Using the means of nature, he creates dreamlike worlds that are in a state of suspension between becoming and passing. He does not paint landscapes or poetic universes, but uses chemical substances and physical reactions to create them in process-related works that unfold dynamically in time and space.
The fact that the artist orchestrates, initiates, manipulates and simulates natural processes nevertheless miraculously demonstrates that nature is incalculable and the composition of reality could be very different. Based on Lucretius’ On the Nature of Things, it shows that both the earth and the universe are subject to the random fluctuations of atoms that are invisible to the human eye. Aléas means coincidences and the works in the exhibition make these fluctuations visible by triggering their aesthetic potential.
Curated by Hannah Eckstein, director of the museum.
