FABRIKculture
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Katherine Newton
Drop and Puddle interactive sound installation 2025, dimensions variable metal shape, motion sensor, mini speaker Rooted in two contrasting landscapes—the echoing gorge of the Tamina in eastern Switzerland and the quiet puddles outside Fabrikculture—this work brings together field recordings and sculptural forms. Water sounds from the Taminaschlucht return in the installation, shifting with the viewer’s…
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Juan José Olavarría
Bandera 2011 raw canvas and thread 107 x 161 cm Some flags are made of faded fabrics—subtly treated with earth, coffee, myrrh, and black bean ink—while others, like the one exhibited here, remain raw. Each evokes an image tied tonational identity: the Venezuelan flag. Its defining structure persists—three stripes and seven stars— yet the absence…
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Joana Amora
Grafite-Musgo (Moss-Graffiti) land art documentation 2025, 120 x 90 cm print on plexi’collage It’s a site-specific intervention at Parque Lage, where moss becomes both medium and collaborator. Set within Rio de Janeiro’s Tijuca Forest, the work invites nature’s slow growth into the composition, blurring the line between human gesture and organic emergence. Carrapixação Carrapichos (Burrs)…
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Javier Grajales
Cascada I / Waterfall I digital print on canvas paper 2024, 253 x 42 cm Estudios del Agua / Water Studies lithography ink on cotton paper monotypes, varied edition of 8 2024 38,50 x 28 cm These works stem from the visual and symbolic exploration of a python’s shed skin found in Parque del Este…
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Daniela Brugger
Something invisible does not necessarily describe something absent. Unbound Realms exhibition at FABRIKculture. France, 2025 Video installation/durational performance2022, 15min Loop smartphones, videos, microphone stands Something invisible does not necessarily describe something absent manifests as a durational performance exploring embodiment, digital presence, and feminist perspectives.Two smartphones mounted on microphone stands display the artist’s eye and mouth…
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Abruptly Faded Laughter: la dimensión cinemática del lenguaje
Por Ileana Ramírez Sobre la instalación Jäh verhalltes Gelächter. Cadrage cinématographique tiré de Los Pasos Perdidos d’Alejo Carpentier por Axel Töpfer y Jo Preußler en la exposición Unbound Realms (2025) FABRIKculture, Hégenheim, Francia. “No es ni la espina de acacia, ni el borde del abismo”¹ La novela Los pasos perdidos de Alejo Carpentier narra la…
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Feliz Navidad y próspero 2026
Happy holidays, may 2026 arrive shimmering with joy and new horizons Tráfico Visual les desea unas felices fiestas y un año nuevo 2026 lleno de alegría, bienestar y mucha fuerza. Gracias a los artistas y a todas las personas que hicieron posibles nuestros proyectos, por su generoso apoyo, la solidaridad, la complicidad y los caminos…
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Latency of an image: On Axel Töpfer & Jo Preußler’s silent movie of Los Pasos Perdidos
“It is neither the acacia thorn nor the edge of emergence“1 I recall a conversation with a friend about photography in the darkroom—about negatives and the moment before the image appears. At one point, she spoke of that critical, decisive instant: the latent photograph. According to one definition: “The latent image is an invisible image…
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Unbound Realms: Traversing Worlds, Breaking Borders at FABRIKculture in Hégenheim, France
Ileana Ramírez Romero’s project traces a constellation of gestures that navigate the complex threshold between limits and borders September 27 – November 2, 2025 | FABRIKculture, Hégenheim FABRIKculture is pleased to present Unbound Realms, a group exhibition curated by Venezuelan curator Ileana Ramírez Romero, on view from September 27 to November 2, 2025, in Hégenheim,…
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To run the risk of burning out more quickly
How About Now was an ambitious curatorial proposal by Raphael Reichert and Leah Studinger that gathered more than 35 artworks of different formats from artists with diverse backgrounds and generations like Lynn Catania Voeffray, Mariejon de Jong-Buijs, Mario Kull, Nara Pfister & Mirzlekid, Simon Wyss.