Frederique Swist

Frederique Swist focuses on the relationship between art and science, and, more specifically, the visualisation of physics through art. Swist strives to contribute to the communication of science from a visual approach, as she explores scientific concepts primarily from an aesthetic perspective. She takes inspiration from technical graphs, diagrams and models found in published scientific research. The resulting artwork is colour-charged, highly visual, new imagery in its own right, aesthetically distanced but never fully detached from its original meaning.

Swist also refers to other visual traditions, such as notions of modules and programmes (Victor Vasarely and Richard Paul Lohse), colour theories from the Bauhaus (Wassily Kandinsky and Johannes Itten), as well as highly constructed compositions from the influence of Swiss Modernist designers. Most of all, in studying form and colour relationships and their infinite, exhausting, possible combinations, the artist’s aim is to share a relentless fascination for the visual.