Projects MA FINE ARTS

Daniel Walcher – Familiar Structures

The physical heart of Familiar Structures is a series of four oil paintings depicting financial diagrams. The artist painted entire simulated environments — gallery walls, shipping crates — surrounding the works. These nested layers expose a mise en abyme where the physical painting permanently houses a simulated performance of its own exhibition space. The project anticipates its own "afterlife": being digitally documented, the physical canvases return to data and into the algorithmic networks from which they were derived. The "digital mirror" — an interactive network graph — allows viewers to trace the exact algorithmic data paths that materialized these structures. Hence, Familiar Structures, engages the invisible networks we inherit, operate within, and replicate.

Diploma project (2026)

Students

Daniel Walcher