Aline Weyel
Aline Weyel
''I am not 'making'; rather, I am mediating. I am the one who sets up an experiment and observes as it unfolds.’'
The practice of Aline Weyel is a meditation on the erosion of time and materiality. Playfully exploring the notion of ‘material,' she composes archives that examine serendipity and capture the process of transition, reflecting upon the tension between decay and growth. The sense of the duration aspect and the processual that fascinates her opens up an‚ alchemistic-sense-based thinking’.
Aline Weyel seeks to create a kind of sensory cognition that is engaged with residue and memory.
She performs, archives, trace and mediates, but substance is always her constant.
Aline Weyel is a German artist and researcher who graduated from the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam and received her Master's in Artistic Research at the Royal Academy in Den Haag. At the moment, she is living and working in Augsburg and Berlin.
Work in Progress:
The Archaeology of Instant Centering
An earthy attempt, the idea of centering—an empirical experience.
It starts with the challenge of centering a lump of clay in the middle of the wheel. Resting hands, shaping the medium on the circling surface. After achieving the center of gravity right in the middle, it feels like time stands still, movements in a vacuum. Shaping the substance into perfect balance. Keeping time and space in my hands. From now on, everything seems possible—the moment to let go. If I stay attached for too long, this balance will be lost, and the material follows other external orders. The mass becomes dented, stretched, increasingly irregular, and collapses. Pausing becomes an artistic act, and the form requires the making of quick decisions. The feeling of knowing when a moment is becoming. Let go—I must surrender.
At Avario Studio, I opened up a conversation with 24 dried residue objects of clay. I asked the participants to sympathize with a form and read their own story of losing or keeping control, out of the shape they hold in their hand. By sharing and telling our personal stories, what we have experienced is reshaped and thus tamed. The form then shatters, and what remains is a negative imprint.
Just as the broken earth in the bucket will unite and form a new emulsion, our stories will follow by doing the same.
Resident in March 2023
Nationality: Germany