Ernst Koslitsch works with construction-grade formwork timber — material that carries the traces of building sites, of use and discard. Cutting, layering, screwing, reshaping: these operations are not technical ends but part of a continuous process of transformation. The resulting works remain deliberately unstable. They can be dismantled, recombined, and reassembled in altered constellations.
In Cosmic Trigger – Respawn, this instability becomes spatial. The works do not appear as isolated objects but form a relational field in which meaning emerges in transitions rather than in fixed forms. Organic, figural, and landscape-like associations arise and dissolve before they settle into clear images.
The title draws on the logic of the video game respawn: the return of a state after its disappearance. In Koslitsch’s practice, this becomes an artistic principle. Forms, meanings, and constellations circulate, shift, and reappear in altered shape. Rather than opposing the analog and the digital, the exhibition proposes a continuous process of translation between the two.
Cosmic Trigger – Respawn unfolds as an open system in which perception and meaning are not fixed but reconstituted anew in the act of looking.
Katharina Hoffmann for Bildraum 07
