In her work, Isabella Fürnkäs combines digital and archaic media and negotiates topics such as isolation, corporeality and communication structures. Her piece »Too Easy To Die« demonstrates this approach: At the beginning of the video we see the movements of an ant street and those of a rave. Two different forms of group organization. The prevailing efficiency within the ant colony and the group structure of the dancing crowd are structurally similar. One can also observe the uniform step of a young woman and waves that hit a beach, or the constellation of shells and sparkling eye make-up. The formal similarities are not contradictory. The natural, the synthetic and the human seem to be able to ecstatically co-exist side by side.
In her series »Wounded« – from which she also shows a work at Bärenzwinger – Fürnkäs uses goatskin as a medium, which is connected with small objects or written onto. The physical presence of the skin, which once served as a form of parchment, seems prehistoric and brutal in its new function, as well as vulnerable and with a perceptible appreciation of the material.
Jan Tappe for Fictional Nature, Bärenzwinger, Berlin