The Invisible Sphere is a body of work initiated from a residential period at Augustiner Chorherrenstift Monastery in Bodensee, where a group of international artists were invited to research and develop a work responding to Hildegard von Bingen’s Ordo Virtutum — an allegorical morality play composed circa 1151, in which virtues and the devil are depicted in their wrestle for a single soul. What emerged from this period was an interdisciplinary performance in themes of identity, renunciation and rebellion: expressing an interpretation of Hildegard’s life-work through movement, sound, poetry, film and photography.

Imogen returns to the monastery one year on, to present works developed and continued since. Her installation spans four interconnecting cloister rooms, featuring fourteen handprinted photographs, a Lomokino film projection, as well as sculptural pieces involving books, papers, silks, poetry, and natural materials gathered from the immanence of the monastery locale. The exhibition was accompanied by a series of performative readings in the church, in collaboration with organist and electronic musician Vveber.

Hildegard von Bingen was a radical artist and visionary, who explored far beyond the usual limitations of spirituality, art and imagination — and whose works still today transport the mind toward places and forms that challenge and inspire our ever evolving relationship with the supernatural. Grappling with conflict, disobedience, madness, and the erotic — themes so intrinsically associated with religious experience, yet so rarely permitted to be explicitly depicted or engaged — this project is an adventurous and contemporary interpretation of feminist theological history and iconography.

The Invisible Sphere is supported by Kultur.Konvent.Öhningen, project for the cultural revitalisation of the former Augustinian Canons' Monastery in Öhningen, Germany. The installation ran for ten days alongside the classical music festival Höri Musiktage. Developed in close collaboration with the artists Britt Angus, Tanit Graffelman Brucart, Alexander Weber, Wolke Milena Wilke. With silk pieces by Gemme Atelier.