Different fabrics are sewn together in a patchwork-like manner, forming organic shapes and connected to one another by fabric tubes, some of which are long. Various objects hang from the ceiling and some are scattered across the floor. Something could flow through them; the eye follows the course of the channels and traces the shapes and textural surfaces.

The title *Skrandis* is the Lithuanian word for stomach. Hannah Steinbrecher’s installation interprets the human digestive system as a network of forms and structures, creating a complex fabric of individual elements and their interconnections.

This work by a fine arts student at the Caspar-David-Friedrich-Institut was created during an Erasmus exchange at the Vilnius Academy of Arts in Vilnius, where the young artist explored textiles as an artistic medium. In addition to traditional textile materials, plastic and metal are also used. This combination of materials highlights how artificial and industrially manufactured substances are increasingly becoming part of our inner selves. The varying densities and surfaces of the materials used also reflect the complexity of the digestive system and the cells and tissues involved in it.

With this installation, the Kunstkubus becomes a kind of body that absorbs and processes influences. The installation could thus also be understood as a metaphor for artistic work itself as well as for art exhibitions—external elements such as perceptions and themes are absorbed, pass through a process of sensations and reflections, are internally processed and transformed—resulting in a form of energy that, in turn, triggers or sets other things in motion.

Text: Hannah Steinbrecher, Marcus Schramm
Photos: Julia Piehl