Atelier Mejia/Wälz
Tableaux Faux

Series of animations
2024
New group of works

Atelier Mejia/Wälz consists of the artist duo Camila Mejia and Erik Wälz and is a studio for audiovisual art, biomorphic design and multidisciplinary research. They create multidimensional, immersive experiences by blending media art, mapping, media architecture and sound design. In doing so, they create works that combine light, video, sound and botanical research into an aesthetic experience that captivates the audience.

The multi-part installation by Camila Mejia and Erik Wälz is made up of soil and plant samples from the Neustift monastery biotope, which are arranged in a display case as a kind of living herbarium. To the right and left of the herbarium there are several monitors showing artistic reworkings of the technical data material that the two artists have obtained from local soil and plant samples.

Hovering above the herbarium are two monitors that trace the wave movements of a shallow body of water. The recordings were made as part of an artistic residency last year in a biotope in northern Europe.

The post-processing in the studio took place at the same time as the processing of the Neustift samples. The artists used the coincidence that both contexts focussed on water as a landscape-designing element for the installation.

The installation is embedded in a site-specific soundscape. The arrangement functions as an experimental system in which various possibilities of image and sound are collaged together to represent observations of nature.