Phillip Sulke (b. 19XX, Vienna) is a contextual artist based in Austria. He works from a single ongoing inquiry, choosing the medium each phase of research demands, examining the systems that move goods, matter and pleasure across the world. His work has been exhibited in Berlin, Osnabrück and St. Gilgen.
Nearly every object in daily use has passed through this infrastructure, yet its scale is rarely seen. Sulke locates the points where the system surfaces, among them ports, marshalling yards, stockpiles, and the decks of ships, and holds them still long enough to be read.
Beneath the contemporary apparatus he finds much older patterns. The ship is at once a unit of trade and a mythological vessel; the flood, the ark, and the migration of peoples sit inside the same frame as container traffic and bulk cargo. Seen from above, the technical and the ancient flatten into a single legible surface.
Medium follows inquiry rather than the reverse. Where the image reaches its limit, the work moves into objects, returning weight and scale to forms the drone can only flatten. The result is neither documentary nor abstraction, but an attempt to make a vast and unseen movement legible, and to trace the older stories still running through it.
exhibitions[title], [venue], Osnabrück
202X.XX
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40 Days 40 Nights, ZÖNOTÉKA, Berlin
202X.XX
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[title], [venue], St. Gilgen
202X.XX
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