Atelier Mejia/Wälz
Tableaux Faux

Museum

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 raw material for Camila Mejia and Erik Wälz's animations are soil samples from various European landscapes. They have translated these into digital data using modern measuring methods such as light microscopy and photogrammetry. Using various software, they manipulated and further developed this data and created artificial plants in multi-stage processes. In a similar way, they have developed soundscapes from acoustic recordings in which they embed their digital images. The animations are an example of how natural materials can become data for digital evolutions.