paper as structure. between construction and dissolution.
Micaela Zellhofer’s artistic practice investigates paper as a spatial and structural medium. Her works emerge through a continuous process of constructing and deconstructing: geometries are generated, dissected, cut, layered, and reassembled. The practice is shaped by an experimental approach that brings together line drawing, flat color application, digital print, and three-dimensional paper-cut works. Textile threads extend the line into space. These techniques are combined and weighted differently in each piece.
Conceptually, the works examine geometric systems and engage with the interplay between the built and the natural environment. Textures and geometries of both systems overlap, referencing processes such as erosion, corrosion, aging, and transformation. Moreover, light and shadow function as form-generating elements that shift and destabilize existing orders.
The works open up questions of materiality, material authenticity, and durability, as well as the measure of architectural order in the face of natural dynamics.
