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Night State: Shedding

Night State Shedding, a mixed media work by Katrin Spranger combining organic materials such as taxidermy parts, human hair, texture and sculptural composition.

Sculptural Painting with taxidermy parts, human hair and synthetic materials

Night State: Shedding, 2026, Mixed media on canvas (pigment, resin, human hair, taxidermy elements, organic matter), 250 × 140 × 30 cm

Left and Right images Night State: Shedding, 2026, Detail

Mixed media artwork with organic textures, fur and earthy materials

Night State: Shedding, 2026, view in space

Night State: Shedding

Night State: Shedding explores processes of material transformation through a large-scale, mixed media work that moves between painting and sculpture. Developed through performative actions and layered material processes, the work engages with organic and synthetic substances held in states of accumulation, compression and decay.

Working with reduced visibility as a condition rather than a setting, the project examines how perception destabilises as forms dissolve, shifting attention from recognition toward proximity, contact and material presence. The works stage encounters in which the boundaries between body, material and environment become unstable.

All Images by Sara Marinangeli