In this artist talk, Evelyn Möcking offers insights into her current working process, which includes the use of mineral pigments on stone paper. The starting point is a series of momentary observations of her experiments, in which she explores how pigments and moisture react with the surface—how they spread, retract, or interact with one another. She also works with fluorescent minerals and pigments that reveal their unique luminosity under UV light.
Fluid Experiments
Fluid Experiments:
Artist Talk by Evelyn Möcking
Using selected works as examples, Möcking discusses the compositional possibilities of layering paint, the use of her plexiglass templates within the painting process, as well as the role of chance and material properties. The presentation is complemented by live demonstrations, where changes in light, material reactions, and the behavior of pigments become directly visible.
Like Sigmar Polke in his Athanor installation, Möcking understands her practice as an open system in which natural processes actively participate in the creation of the image. Light, humidity, and material reactions are not controlled but embraced as co-agents within the work—echoing Polke’s wall paintings, whose coloration shifted in response to the atmospheric moisture. This collaboration with nature shapes a visual language that extends beyond individual authorship: an artistic expression in which human gesture and natural forces are inseparably intertwined.
Fluid Experiments: Artist Talk by Evelyn Möcking
Talk, tbd, Mineralien-Museum, Essen-Kupferdreh