Recurring structures across the practice.
Systems describes a framework for interpreting recurring patterns within artistic practice: perception, observation, participation, data translation, and social behavior analysis.
Perception becomes a field.
Drawing and painting are forms of understanding. In drawings, paintings, and works on paper, traces, movement, and condensation coalesce into tangible patterns. The same method that can be experienced spatially in the installations appears here in concentrated form within the image.
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Observation changes what it observes.
Forestprotocols, smartphones, and bodies become artistic materials. Surveillance, traces, and public attention become visible as spatial and social arrangements.
Participation is part of the material.
The audience becomes a fundamental part of the work. Decision-making, risk, distance, empathy, freedom, and suspension form its structure.
Data becomes line, light and space.
Digital information is translated into drawings, movement profiles, light structures, and spatial situations. Invisible processes give rise to forms that establish connections between perception, movement, and the body.
Collective conditions become visible.
Privacy, migration, pandemic distance, artificial intelligence and the desire for freedom are approached as systems of relation. The works create situations in which these pressures can be seen, felt and negotiated.
Across media, Mehnert turns systems into situations: drawings condense perception, data becomes spatial structure, and participation exposes how control, freedom and social behaviour are produced.
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