Do you see nature?

In 1997, a huge wave washed several containers off the cargo ship Tokyo Express. Since then, Lego pieces from the ‘Ocean’ series have been washing up on beaches in southern England. Almost 30 years later, the small octopuses and shells are still in perfect condition and mingle with driftwood and seaweed.

Nature is a toy.

There are social media influencers who search for minerals and fossils. They are often accused in the comments, probably justifiably, of having previously buried the items themselves in order to generate more content. Ironically, people commenting often believe that pyrite, a very common mineral that forms cube-like shapes with extremely straight edges, is guaranteed not to occur in nature and must have been 3D-printed by the influencers. Nature is barely recognisable because of all the imitations of nature.

Fischer's works with oil paint on digital backgrounds form a kind of inverted sediment in which old and new media are stored. Various pipes run seemingly endlessly through the pictures, like the pipes that drain Berlin's construction sites and are intended to stabilise the swamp beneath the city. They are under-complex in their presentation and are reminiscent of old video games or screensavers. In their low-res quality, they correspond to our idea of nature, which we can no longer imagine without ourselves and our artefacts. It remains unclear what the tubes contain: Sewage, fibreglass cable or dark smoke. A Lights Out Factory is a factory in which lighting is no longer needed due to automation and AI. Fischer's factories, the nodes of the tubes, are black. You don't know whether it's because of soot or because people no longer work here. Consequently, even Fischer's characters consist only of tubes. They are containers and transport routes in one and the big pipe burst is foreseeable. My grandparents are full of lead, my parents are full of asbestos and I am full of microplastics.

‘Do you see nature?’

04 - 26 April 2025
Lars Fischer

Vernissage: 04 April 2025, 18:00 - 21:00
Artist Talk: 26 April, 16:00


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