Stefanie Koemeda

Stefanie Koemeda’s residency is supported by and held in partnership with Pro Helvetia Johannesburg. During her stay, she has continued her practice of taking clay imprints of found structures and forms from which to build sculptures. At the same time, she will continue her painting and drawing, experimenting with ways to combine all three mediums. ‘My interest here at NIROX lies in the archeological sites around the residency and the speculations that surround their role and purpose, as well as in contemporary terra-human sites of interaction, such as mines,” she explains. This interest extends her thinking about the ‘material legacy’ of contemporary human societies along geological grounds. Her practice asks what kind of sediment we will leave behind, and ‘which objects will reveal our existence in the distant future. ‘The ground, the soil, and the terra of my workplace interest me and how we humans interact with them,’ she adds. ‘My focus lies at the interfaces between humans and terra, the machinery involved, and the infrastructures resulting from this co-existence.’