In suspension

Three video projections, including one animated film, light, glazed ceramics, textiles, cast resin, silicone and latex, liquids

2025

In Suspension confronts viewers with a body that defies clear classification: neither dead nor alive, neither clearly organic nor purely mechanical. The installation brings viewers into almost clinical proximity to a fragile system of material and meaning – an image of the body that appears both familiar and alien. In a present in which biotechnological interventions are becoming commonplace and the boundary between natural life and artificial preservation is increasingly dissolving, the work raises pressing questions: What do we keep alive – and why?
When does an intervention begin, and when does it become a construction? This work invites not only contemplation, but also commentary – between empathy and unease, between fascination and doubt.

About Ines Fiegert

Ines Fiegert on her work: “Where does the natural end and the artificial begin? This question runs through my work like a red thread – literally. In my groups of works, natural processes and man-made systems encounter each other, intersect, interpenetrate and interweave. They are not opposites, but parts of a common fabric that affects us all. The thread is much more than a motif – it is a carrier of meaning, symbol and structure at the same time. As a line, knot or net, it refers to archaic narrative forms, myths, stories and cultural patterns that we have woven over centuries. This narrative dimension forms the heartbeat of my work: they combine surreal elements with real questions about our relationship to the natural world – materially and metaphorically.
The works invite us to question what we take for granted: our environment, our systems, our role in them. At a time when ecological and social structures are under equal pressure, the net appears as a powerful image. It symbolises connectedness and dependence – but also fragility.
Like this, the thread becomes the bearer of a silent but powerful message: everything is connected. What we do, what we create, what we destroy – it all has an impact on the whole. The boundary between nature
and culture, between humans and the environment, is fluid. And perhaps it is precisely this realisation that offers a new perspective – not only on art, but also onourselves.
These works want to be seen, felt and read – as an invitation to lose oneself in the web of meanings and discover new connections in the process.”

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About Michael Kibler

Michael Kibler studied product design and contextual design in Schwäbisch Gmünd, Lillestrøm and Eindhoven.
He lives and works as a designer in Winzingen.
Projects and installations with Ines Fiegert.
Works exhibited at MoMA, New York and Galerie Tabak, Renquishausen.