Inside the Mind of seiLeise – Part #2 // In the Rhythm of the City – Art as a Fleeting Time Document

At the heart of my artis­tic prac­ti­ce lies an explo­ra­ti­on of urban space as a ves­sel for time, memo­ry, and chan­ge. My work is an ongo­ing attempt to cap­tu­re the pul­se of the pre­sent in the rhythm of the city and make it visi­ble in flee­ting interventions.

Each work is inten­ded as a tem­po­ra­ry docu­ment of time — a silent inter­ven­ti­on in urban space that momen­ta­ri­ly rech­ar­ges places wit­hout iden­ti­ty and gives them their own lan­guage. The­se traces are sub­ject to chan­ge from the out­set: they ari­se in public space, beco­me part of its dyna­mics, and even­tual­ly dis­ap­pear again in the curr­ents of urban transformation.

As soon as my works have found their place in urban space, they are no lon­ger my pro­per­ty. They belong to the city, to chan­ce obser­vers, to the wea­ther, and to the inces­sant pro­cess of change.

The motifs them­sel­ves emer­ge wit­hout a fixed back­ground; it is only through their con­tex­tua­liza­ti­on in the urban envi­ron­ment that they attain their final form. In the ten­si­on bet­ween figu­ra­ti­ve repre­sen­ta­ti­on and the raw drea­ri­ne­ss of urban sur­faces, an aes­the­tic emer­ges that is both con­trast and sym­bio­sis — a dia­lo­gue bet­ween image and envi­ron­ment, bet­ween artis­tic ges­tu­re and urban reality.