Frederik Heyman
Frederik Heyman's (1984) work is a balancing act incorporating multiple media. Heyman's diverse background is clearly visible in his working process. The outcome, mainly created in a digitally altered environment, results in digital installations and video. In each image, every element and action are carefully designed and defined in advance. This is also reflected in his commissioned works, as well as in his personal, more eclectic oeuvre.
In his work, Frederik Heyman uses photogrammetry to stage digital worlds out of relics of the past. Because one needs time to experience three dimensions, a 3D scan is a bearer of duration. This duration gives Heyman’s work a narrative element that is often amplified by (mechanically induced) movement and timed text. For Heyman, the 3D scan is not only a means to conserve the past, but also a means to recycle the present and an attempt to shape the future.
Heyman explores the desire to overcome humanity. Technology and the human body are the protagonists.
His imagery, whether based on fact or fiction, asks us how we want to remember.
Exhibition
Plásmata: Bodies, Dreams, and Data
Athens
Educational program
Plásmata meet “constellations of works” inside Pedion tou Areos Park
Plásmata: Bodies, Dreams, and Data | Exhibition Glossary
Plásmata: Movement Radio Live
News
Terrorist Assemblages: Homonationalism in Queer Times | A discussion with Jasbir Puar
Educational program