Wall design at
Radialsystem V - New Space for The Arts

Berlin 2007 – 2014

Developed for medeamorphoses – a festival for the arts

From a series of “endless drawings” on the subject of Medea, Roland Stratmann developed a pulsating spatial drawing for the RADIALSYSTEM. This extends over the entire length of the left-hand wall area in the foyer and transforms the room into a virtual "time tunnel". In the entrance area, the visitor is greeted by a shimmering, irritating network of lines, which as the wall progresses in seemingly endless superimpositions condenses into a stream of swirling surfaces. At the end of the foyer, the structures thin out again and reveal the cause of the interwoven chaos of lines: Medea!? What alienating and disturbing figure is behind the multiple retellings and contrasting interpretations of the story? What knowledge can be filtered out of the noise of the many overlapping traditions? The monstrous story of a multiple murderess, the truth of which remains doubtful and yet seems impossible? With his expansive wall drawing, Stratmann circles around the difficulties of interpretation of the myth. Through the iridescent network of lines, the pull of history and the monstrosity of the deeds handed down can be felt physically up to the optical pain threshold.