Exhibition: Morphologies of Becoming
Morphologies of Becoming
2025, performative, multimedia exhibition
Over the course of four days, Morphologies of Becoming unfolds as a live, evolving dialogue between artists Daniel Hill and Philipp Hoelzgen. Blurring the lines between photography, performance, and sculpture, the exhibition becomes a space of encounter—between bodies and materials, image and object, the human and the more-than-human.
Each day, the artists engage in a durational performance that gradually shapes the space through interventions and interactions with photographic materials. Visitors are not mere spectators, but active participants in the unfolding process—mirrored, refracted, and implicated in the sculptural environment as it transforms.
The work explores a terrain of fragmentation and assembly, where identities shift, merge, and dissolve. Through disorienting spatial relationships and unexpected sensorial triggers, the exhibition invites reflection on the unstable nature of perception and the possibilities of dynamic, fluid futures.
On the final day, the resulting sculptural forms—charged with the traces of performance, participation, and transformation—are revealed as a collective composition. Not an end, but a convergence of processes made visible.
Morphologies of Becoming: Behind the Scenes, 2025
During the first 3 days of the exhibition "Mophologies of Becoming", artists Daniel Hill and Philipp Hoelzgen invited visitors to become part of the creation process. Testing and modelling wearable objects, posing for a Lookbook, creating cyanotypes while dressed in laboratory uniforms and engaging in discussions with them. This interactive and performative aspect of the exhibition transformed the traditional white cube into a space for engagement and immersion, allowing visitors to become part of and contribute to the final work. The artists' goal was to question the traditional idea that an exhibition is only visited to view final works.
Camera: Daniel Hill, Philipp Hoelzgen
Editing: Philipp Hoelzgen
Morphologies of Becoming: Final Performance, 2025
Camera: Carlo Zappella
Editing: Philipp Hoelzgen
The first part of our finale was a kind of reimagined runway as a site of critique and transformation. Wearing a series of photographically charged objects, I moved through the space as if on a catwalk, queering the codes of fashion, beauty, photography and labor.
Each object referenced aspects of photographic and artistic labor. An umbrella with a flash attachment evoked the mechanics of image-making; an apron and pair of shoes assembled from exhibition catalogues confronted the idea of art as work; a breathing apparatus made of dia carriages hinted at futuristic survival; and a mask with projected images reflected new forms of digital communication and censorship.
The performance turned the runway into a space of reflection, where tools of production became extensions of the body and gestures of resistance intertwined with acts of care and self-presentation.