The Invisible Sphere
Bodensee DE, 2025

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 a performative exploration in themes of identity, renunciation and rebellion: expressing an interpretation of Hildegard’s life-work through movement, sound, poetry, film and photography.

This process was documented through photographic works which became part of the exhibition one year on, alongside a new, site-responsive sculptural installation spanning four interconnecting cloister rooms overlooking Lake Constance. The installation grew incrementally during a preparatory residency — inhabiting the space through an accumulation of text, papers, silks, and natural materials gathered from the immanence of the monastery locale. The exhibition was complemented by a series of performative readings in the church, in collaboration with organist and electronic musician Vveber.

The Invisible Sphere was 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.

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