Kristina Nagel, NON-FIELD I, 2026

2026

Medium

UV print on PVC tarp and metal eyelets

Dimensions

160 × 240 cm

Edition

Ed. 1/2 + 1 AP

Status

In Gallery Collection

Collect24 Art ID

C24-156078

In the photographs of the series “NON-FIELD”, black leather spreads across the image surface in fragmentary, varying forms and textures, blurring the boundaries between subject and object. The proximity of the camera allows both elements to dissolve into one another, condensing in the contact zone of two leather bodies. Nagel’s interest lies in structuring and shifting perception: by depersonalizing the body and reducing identifiable features, she develops her own logic of representation within visual systems. Leather does not function iconically here but operationally: it directs attention to surface, line, and texture, making the act of viewing palpable as a dynamic, mutable structure. As Theodor Adorno emphasizes in his “Aesthetic Theory” (1970), works of art are never static; their value emerges through the ongoing process of transformation and the dialectical tension between substance, form, and context. Nagel transfers these principles to the materiality of photography, printing her motifs on PVC tarps. In doing so, she subverts conventional representations of the medium and dissolves the classical hierarchy of photography as a purely representational medium. PVC serves not only as a carrier material but as a tactile surface that integrates the image into the space, making its materiality perceivable. “NON-FIELD” generates a deliberate “anti-aura”: the work exerts its effect not through traditional uniqueness or museum-like distance, but through presence, perception, and spatial experience. The interplay of content and materiality opens up a space where perception and corporeality intertwine, without reverting to traditional categories of object and subject.