Future Archive

Isabel Seiffert's visual archive since 2011. Based in Zurich, Switzerland.

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Bridget Mullen Blood’s Bluff 2022, Flashe on linen 84 x 60 in

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The Myth of Memory Offshore  La Becque 2022

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EDITORS: Jessica Gysel, Christoph Miler, Isabel Seiffert ART DIRECTION & GRAPHIC DESIGN: Offshore Studio  PUBLISHER: Jan van Eyck Academie

Contributing artists and writers: Persis Bekkering, Frederik Willem Daem, David Habets, Christoph Miler, Viktor Hachmang, Anna Haifisch, Fabio Barille, Guillaume Simoneau, Marvin Leuvrey, Elena Aya Bundurakis, Grace Ndiritu. PURCHASE VIA https://www.janvaneyck.nl/shop/elements-book-2021

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Humankind and plants are engaged in an intimate and complex relationship.  The beings and survival of both is the result of hybridisation, networks, exchange and migration. However, although plants move and change like  human beings do, their pace of movement and scale of exchange are mostly too intricate to enter the doors of human perception. Yet it might be worth  looking closer: Understanding and admiring the abilities of plants to collaborate and evolve on a planetary scale, could allow us to rethink a world not through political borders and nation states, but through the lens of collaborative networks of exchange. Simply, because at the end of the day, purity is not an option: The membranes of human culture are as permeable as those of individual plants. By introducing a group of fictional plants we provoke questions about their evolution and urge to look at them in a new light: Not as solitary and immutable objects, forever frozen by the gaze of scientific categorisation, but as subjects that evolve constantly in all sorts of unexpected and collective ways.

The set of fictional plants are developed by Offshore (Isabel Seiffert & Christoph Miler) and are part of the mixed-media installation “Welcome to Borderland”, curated by researcher and writer Justinien Tribillon, currently on view at the Venice Biennale of Architecture 2021.

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Welcome to Borderland! More soon…

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Managing the wild concept and illustration for a PCB  wip 

by Offshore

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Unused. Sketches for identity and billboards.

2018, Offshore Studio

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Migrant

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Offshore Studio, 2019

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Offshore Studio, Jan van Eyck Academie 2020

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Managing the Wild

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Managing the Wild

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Ongoing visual experimentation, Managing the Wild, Offshore Studio 2020

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AT&T Corp, 1979

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Specimens of Hyper-Ecology. For Natural Capital (Modal Alam) curated by Charlotte Dumoncel D’Argence and Laura Herman at BOZAR in Brussels. "Finally, a series of pivoting, synthetic, organic-looking 3D objects by Offshore Studio refer to the artificiality of the ‘natural’, as well as the challenges of going beyond clichés of cultural appropriation in contemporary modes of representation.”