Louisa Clement‘s practice delves into the ever-shifting notion of identity as our society gets confronted with new forms of communication, standardisation and recognition brought along with the digital age. Through photography, video, sculpture, installation and VR, her practice questions physicality and the dynamics of collective interaction at a time where the virtual has long outgrown its own sphere and the fragile categories of individual and reality escape their traditional paradigms. Clement’s essential aim at dissolving defined structures is also emphasized by the constant swinging of her work between abstraction and figuration and by her making use of a broad range of media to mimic the fluidity of the subject she examines, which indirectly reflects the extent of her investigation rooted in the fluctuating and networked condition of our times.

In the center of the booth we present Louisa Clement’s newest work, "compression" (2023), which makes use of a new bio-cybernetic method of storage: DNA data storage. Digital data can be translated from the binary code into the DNA code based on four amino acids. Clement uses this technology to translate her entire oeuvre up to now into a sequence of adenine (A), thymine (T), cytosine (C), and guanine (G). The resulting double helix is preserved in a tiny stainless-steel casing. The body itself can thus become a carrier medium for an enormous amount of data. In combination with the sculpture we will show some of her most recent and former photo series.

Louisa Clement (b. 1987) lives and works in Bonn, Germany. She graduated in 2015 at Kunstakademie Düsseldorf as master student of Andreas Gursky. She has exhibited in various institutions and museums including, Haus der Kunst Munich, Casino Luxembourg, Ramat Gan Museum, Israel, WEST Den Haag, AXART, Los Angeles, Bundeskunsthalle Bonn, Marta Herford Museum, Sprengel Museum, Hannover. Her work is part of important collections.