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STATIC TREMORS EXPLORES THE TENSION BETWEEN OUTER STILLNESS AND INNER VIBRATION. DRAWING ON FIELD OBSERVATIONS OF SCANDINAVIAN BIRCH FORESTS, EXPERIMENTAL STUDIO PRACTICE AND DIGITAL METHODS, STENIA HUBER DEVELOPS A LANGUAGE OF RADICAL REDUCTION IN WHICH MINIMAL IMPULSES GENERATE SPATIAL RESONANCES. AT THE CORE ARE THE BIRCH CODES: VERTICAL BLACK-AND-WHITE PULSES THAT, AS THE PAINTERLY NUCLEUS, SET THE RHYTHM OF THE EXHIBITION.

THE BIRCH SCREEN, AN ELLIPTICAL ARRAY OF WHITE-PRIMED BIRCH TRUNKS, CARRIES THE VIDEO FLUID FLUX, WHOSE MOVEMENT LOGIC IS BASED ON RECORDED, VERIFIABLE DATA FROM THE EUROPEAN GRID FREQUENCY (50 HZ). THE CHOICE OF THIS FREQUENCY MAKES AN OTHERWISE INVISIBLE, CONNECTIVE INFRASTRUCTURE PERCEPTIBLE AS A SHARED BEAT AND BINDS THE WORK TO LOCAL TIME. THE RECORDED DRIFTS—FROM PEAK LOADS TO REGIONAL OUTAGES—REFLECT THE PRESSURES OF THE PRESENT: GEOPOLITICAL TENSIONS, ENERGY CRISES, AND THE GROWING POWER DEMAND OF DIGITAL INFRASTRUCTURE AND AI DATA CENTRES.

A BARELY AUDIBLE SUB-BASS TRANSLATES THESE FLUCTUATIONS INTO BODILY PERCEPTION, WHILE IRREGULAR STROBE IMPULSES CUT ACROSS THE VISUAL CALM. THE PAPER STRIPS FROM THE SERIES PHASE DELIBERATELY WITHDRAW, FORMING TWO RESTRAINED INTERVENTIONS IN THE SPACE. LIKE THE BIRCHES, THEY SYMBOLISE FLOWS OF ENERGY BETWEEN SKY AND EARTH, TRACING THE PATH FROM CROWN, DOWN THE TRUNK, INTO THE ROOT ZONE, ECHOING THE CONTINUOUS FLOWS—AT TIMES CALM, AT TIMES SHIFTING—IN NATURAL AND ELECTRICAL SYSTEMS.

HUBER’S CLEAN EDGES, MODULATED INTERVALS AND PRECISE BLACK-AND-WHITE RHYTHMS OPEN CONTEMPLATIVE SPACES OF PERCEPTION AND REEXAMINE THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN SEEING, HEARING AND SENSATION. HER WORK RESONATES WITH THE QUIET STRUCTURES OF AGNES MARTINAND THE OPTICAL RHYTHMS OF BRIDGET RILEY. STATIC TREMORS PROBES THE FRICTION BETWEEN ORDER AND RESTLESSNESS, BETWEEN INFRASTRUCTURE AND SENSATION. PRECISE SPATIAL GESTURES AND CAREFUL MATERIAL CHOICES BRING TOGETHER PAINTING, SCULPTURE AND DATA-DRIVEN IMAGERY INTO A FOCUSED COMPOSITION THAT MAKES THE HIDDEN VIBRATIONS OF THE PRESENT VISIBLE AND PALPABLE.