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Gegenstrich I

Motorized kinetic sculpture, 2019

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moving stainless steel bail, aluminium, various mechanical and electronic components, hyper realistic faux fur

​160 x 60 x 6 cm

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A surface of dense, black-grey faux fur – soft, velvety, and yet resistant. A narrow metal bar moves across it, brushing the material, sometimes with the grain, sometimes against it. Where the fibres rise, the light changes. The pale grey breaks open, turns black, moves, comes alive. At the point of transition, a fine, flickering line appears – a nearly digital shimmer that travels across the surface, emerging whether the fur is brushed upward or down.

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The title Gegenstrich – literally “against the stroke” – evokes both a physical motion and a mental stance: a moment of resistance, of reversal, of going against the habitual flow. From this friction arises resonance – tangible, visible, thinkable.

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What appears as a minimalist gesture unfolds into layered dynamics: a play between control and release, between movement and stillness, surface and depth. The work invites us to look closer, to linger – in that subtle space where opposites meet.