Alexandra Bircken
Slice of Life, 2025
£980
Limited edition silkscreen on aluminium by Alexandra Bircken, signed and numbered by the artist and exclusive to House of Voltaire.
Edition Size
30
Dimensions
60 x 60 cm
Finishing
Silkscreen on aluminium
The price of the edition increases as it sells out.
Photography by Andy Keate
About The Artwork
This edition is based on a photograph of Alexandra Bircken’s 2023 sculpture ‘Gebrochenes Pferd’ (Broken Horse), an assemblage of six precisely cut segments of a V10 combustion engine from an Audi RS 6. The V10 represents a pinnacle in the era of combustion engines, embodying an excess of engineering, obsession with size and hedonistic recklessness. Echoing both the industrial precision of mass production and the visceral act of dissection, each edition becomes its own ‘slice’ of the engine. Please note this edition is made using hand-cut industrial materials, as such each sheet of aluminium has surface flaws and irregularities.
About Alexandra Bircken
Alexandra Bircken (b.1967, Cologne) combines a variety of materials and techniques - often woven or knitted textiles - with which she explores the boundary between the human and the created environment. At the same time, Bircken dissects everyday technical objects with surgical precision, bringing the biomorphic nature of machines into view. This dual approach leads to an ambivalent work that is both cyborg-like and androgynous and questions human behaviour and desire, as well as the vulnerability of the body in its relationship to technology.
Bircken has had two solo exhibitions at Studio Voltaire, and shown widely with institutions and galleries including KINDL Centre for Contemporary Art, La Biennale di Venezia, Kunstverein Hamburg, Whitechapel Gallery, Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, Tramway, BQ, Stedelijk Museum. Bircken is represented by Herald St, London, Maureen Paley, London and BQ, Berlin.