Alexandra Bircken: Technostrick & Lunge

Alexandra Bircken’s video work “Technostrick” (2016) shows in close-up the forward and backward movements of the carriage of a knitting machine. In dialogue with other works in the exhibition “Alexandra Bircken: A–Z,” it raises questions about mechanization and the transformative potential of matter—here, how a long strand is transformed into a knitted body. In the smaller gallery, Bircken’s installation “Lunge” (Lungs, 2013) unfolds: a luminous pink sculpture that inflates until it meets the boundaries of the museum space, then deflates again. As a breathing organ, it prompts reflection on architecture as a living organism and invites us to consider our own breathing and relationship to the body.