Publications

Jorinde Voigt’s works are composed of structured notational systems of music, geometric mathematics, and philosophy to choreograph fluid, cyclical movements expressed through gestures on paper. Voigt’s recent experimentation with mirrored glass and layered collage paper resulted in two preceding bodies of work, which were featured in the exhibition Soundwaves: Experimental Strategies in Art + Music on view at the Moody Center at Rice University in Houston, Texas, January 28 – May 14, 2022.

Voigt describes her search to find “a structure or means of notation that behaves in the liveliest way possible, after all, it is something living that is being observed.” As such, the feathered construction of paper shapes in Red Rhythm metamorphoses into a living organism poised to take flight.

References can be drawn to the three-dimensional, geometric arrangements of Lygia Clark, Sol LeWitt and Dorothea Rockburne. Like Clark, Voigt softens the boundary between body and environment to unify art with phenomenology. The continuous repetition of the sharp edges that cut each form denotes time and space. Voigt is a celestial cartographer who fuses philosophical texts together with the language of musical notation to make physical the rhythms of turmoil and upheaval in present, daily life.