Jorinde Voigt

The artistic practice of the Berlin-based artist Jorinde Voigt is characterized by the fact that she sees her drawings as thought models or experimental setups. Voigt makes notations of evolving, yet unfinished lines of thought and thus renders visually present that which is still absent.

Aesthetically, these lines of thought are translated into sweeping arcs and lines drawn in fine ink, punctuated with energetic handwriting and delicate pencil markings. On a sheet of paper almost ten feet wide, the artist develops Declination II (2008) as a configuration of lines whose density increases toward the right side of the sheet and that seems reduced and open at the sheet’s margins.

This artwork represents an acoustic impulse that is perceived from various standpoints and that takes into account the impact from wind direction and wind force as well as distance and duration. The drawing thus not only stimulates the observer’s visual imagination but also their acoustic memory.

The notation and visual representation of the listening experience, which Voigt commits to paper, resembles musical scores similar to those created by other artists in the Schering Stiftung Collection, among them William Engelen and David Horvitz.