ZEIT I EN

Video, sculpture and photography are the media with which Sylvia Henze explores the concept of time in her project "ZEIT I EN". Unhardened by fire, porcelain clay is directly exposed to the power of water. In the slow decay of the original forms of sphere and column, the water gives rise to new forms and sculptural images. Photos on acrylic and fired sculptures of various decay phases of the porcelain capture this process in aesthetic individual shots. The real-time video allows the viewer to feel new time relations and an immediate confrontation with the forces of nature.

"In this work initiated and filmed by Sylvia Henze, the most diverse themes find alliance. Time and creation, becoming and passing, mask and metamorphosis, reality and truth.

If we follow the processes that result from the interaction, or rather from the dramatic encounter of water and porcelain clay, we become witnesses of a continuous transformation ... And quite incidentally, this play is also an encouraging lesson about the nature of being. A being that - as it is shown in Henze's video - is always already on the move, always in the process of change, but does not lose itself in the process, is not essentially lost and is not condemned to nothingness."

Michael Stoeber, author

Video: Picture Factory
Photos of sculptures: Peter Voigt/Dieter Steffen