Ziegler, Features of the Poetic - The Mimetic Method of the Visual Artist

The starting point of Denise Ziegler's mimetic practice lies in situations that contain some ordinary, unobserved human action that generally goes unnoticed or traces of the same. Ziegler's term for such phenomena is ”undefinable gesture”, and she analyses their links to poetic expression. In a dialogue with Aristotle's Poetics, Ziegler searches for concrete guidelines for artistic practice, thereby adapting the mechanisms of poetics into her own practice and more broadly into the field of...