“My artistic practice operates at the limits of perception. I am interested in the agency of the visible and the invisible, and in the spaces between concretion and dissolution, memory and immediate experience.

My work may begin with specific places and photographic records, as well as historical objects, language, scientific models of thought, or digital systems. Through the artistic process, these elements are transformed and shifted into new contexts—onto a level that resists rational certainty.

Photography shifts towards the painterly, historical carpets open up into walkable pictorial spaces, language becomes a shifting matrix, and algorithmic structures become visual systems. Material is never merely the carrier of an idea, but an active part of artistic thinking. Pigments, lacquers, glass particles, textile structures, and phosphorescent layers of paint develop an agency of their own. Light, perspective, and movement alter the works: what appears clear and distinct in one moment may shift, dissolve, or re-form in the next.

A fundamental principle of my work lies in the tension between precision and loss of control. Technically and conceptually developed systems encounter intuitive, gestural, and not entirely predictable processes. From this friction, moments can emerge in which something opens up that cannot be fully grasped through our familiar systems of thought and perception.” – Holger Schmidhuber