Random Access Memory
exhibition
graduation show, Academy of Fine Arts Munich, 2024

Random Access Memory brings together independent bodies of work developed for my diploma project within a shared exhibition concept. Rather than presenting autonomous sculptures, the exhibition establishes a spatial logic in which individual works remain distinct while entering new material and conceptual relationships.
Borrowed from computer architecture, the title refers to a form of memory based on random access rather than linear sequence. The exhibition adopts this principle as a curatorial and sculptural method, allowing handmade paper produced from devalued euro banknotes, laser-engraved marble, sugar, server racks, and digital imagery to be read as interconnected yet non-hierarchical systems.
Rather than constructing a linear narrative, Random Access Memory proposes an open structure in which value, communication, storage, and circulation remain continuously reconfigurable. The exhibition marks an early articulation of the modular working method that has since become central to my practice.


Wertschöpfungspapier [hole]
2024
UV print on handmade paper from devalued euro notes, spreader bar, nipple clamps, carabiner, eyebolt, plaster
130 x 200 x 15 cm


Wertschöpfungspapier [chains]
2024
UV print on handmade paper from devalued euro notes, spreader bar, nipple clamps, carabiner, eyebolt, plaster
130 x 200 x 15 cm


Datenkörper [enabled core]
2024
laser engraving on marble, server rack, screenshots, infrared heating foil
60x62x200 cm


Datenkörper [enabled kim]
2024
laser engraving on marble, server rack, screenshots
20 x 30 x64 cm


big boy [massive]
2022
devalued euro notes, sugar, flightcase
60 x 80 x 55 cm


pointer
2022
laser engraving on marble, quote by Paul B. Preciado, hand dildo (silicone), tile adhesive
15 x 30 x 22 cm


the marble was generously sponsored by HUBER Naturstein
[photo]
Dirk Tacke
[related text]
Random Access Memory Zakirah Rabaney, 2024