Reiner Maria Matysik: Sextinction

Recording, description and classification are just as much a part of his artistic practice as camouflage, deception and irony. Models of post-evolutionary species of proliferating form reveal that the biological nature of man - supplemented here by the (in)logical - is a dead end on the road to the future and can only survive as antibiology in the entanglement and transformation with other phytic, animal or biofactual realities of life. Reflecting on the disciplines, the artist creates utopian scenarios for a future of the human beyond the human. Only as a hybrid and post-evolutionary symbiont (Donna Haraway) is future human life conceivable - and not only for Matysik.

The objects, drawings and video works, but also the performances and participatory projects of an artist who has been reflecting on today's virulent questions since the mid-1990s, enrich us with such ideas: "It is about the relationship of man to himself and to other forms of life, his hubris and arrogance, hierarchies and blindness."

With the kind support of the district development funds of the Senate Department for Culture and Europe.Translated with DeepL