Frame Reframe Unframe

Multiple, Manuela Eichner's production (Arroio do Tigre, 1984) ranges from videos and performances to collaborative workshops, through the development of prints, pieces of graphic design and illustrations. In these different fronts, it systematically resorts to the principles of collage, rupture and shuffling of the spatial, contextual and semantic unit of images from different sources. Overtaking the edges of a medium and widening its frame until it matches the entire space is a latent strategy in Eichner's latest proposals. The experiments performed on her ‘Monstera’ projects extrapolate the plan to invade space with three-dimensional collages in which the images of bodies and tangled objects gain an immersive scale. The presence of this hybrid mass, strange and monstrous in its convergence of printed materials, plants and objects, challenges the viewer and his assumptions about body, space and nature.