Middernacht & Alexander


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STRATA  - Milan  Design Week
7 - 13 April 2025
Via Rutilia 10/9
Milano



How I Got Over (Overview)
2020-2024 Selection
Maroon Terra
Juniper Forest
Carmine Soprano
Arsenic Fog
Cloud Stone
Ruby Blush
Fossil Sage
Blonde Fern
Venetian Fire
Ebony Ice
Romance
Boon Sky
Cinnamon Cloud
Coral Moon
Planet Orchid
Toxic Moss
Bloody Lapis
Mauve Punch
Navy Raisin


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We live our lives made up of a great quantity of isolated instants. So as to be lost at the heart of a multitude of things.
 



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Vulnerable Dimensions




“Vulnerable Dimensions II” - 2017
15 x 20cm
Treated prints, Resin, Pigments in a handmade, black acrylic tray frame.

'Vulnerable Dimensions' is about choices and the challenges we face when making them. Arranged in a series of four, these portraits highlight the individuality of single subject, but each is slightly different from the next. When the viewer is presented with such similar option, working out which is 'best' is a task with no obvious solution.

The process of judgement is further complicated here because each can only be viewed from a right angle, fading to black if seen from any other perspective. As an arrangement the series is an inverse panopticon, obscured in a way that underlines the fugitive nature in which choices often present themselves. 

The vehicle that makes this narrative of choice possible is a technical innovation on the medium. Multiple layers of clear high gloss UV epoxy resin and a final one of black acrylic gloss make the print visible only from a certain perspective. As viewer, you are forced to look the portrait right in the eye, resulting in a unique, bewildering viewing experience.

MAGGIE MAURER BY SOFIE MIDDERNACHT & MAARTEN ALEXANDER