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Lars Preisser

Lars Preisser holds degrees in textile art from Otago Polytechnic School of Art, Aotearoa/ NZ and in media art from the Academy of Fine Art Leipzig, DE. He exhibits internationally and received various grants and prizes for his work.

Lars Preisser’s work refers to an post-industrial age. Through his works, he creates possibilities for a rethinking and a different future. His projects are formations of drawings, animations, built machines, weavings and other media. The choice of specific materials and media refer to a certain time or technological development and contextualize issues from gentrification, global warming, post-colonial contexts, hidden histories, lived experiences to materials and technologies that he himself is connected to through his own ancestors and their industrial heritage.

 

Lars Preisser's proposed project is part of a series of works exploring the Arctic as a physical place and a symbolic and speculative landscape. Starting with early European maps, especially Mercator's of Rupes Nigra, a fictional black rock located at the North Pole, the artist uses historical cartography and artefacts to reveal the surprising links between colonial imagination, ecological exploitation and the urgent realities of the climate crisis.