“We perspire, urinate, ingest ejaculate menstruate
lactate breath cry -we take in the world selectively
and send it flooding back out again “
Astrid Neimanis
Fluids are not by definition self-contained and therefore cannot be restrained to notions of polarity and opposition. Whirls, swirls, dynamic fluxes and eccentric spirals of different liquid oddities with no borders between them, permeating one another penetrating one and the other loosing themselves amongst indefinite thresholds that make the existence of an Other an organic impossibility.
Through the body of work Theresa Albrecht creates an aquatic fiction, a hybrid universe inside which fluid bodies are not sanctioned or cancelled by gender normativity but exist beyond gender to the point where they start to gain ontological autonomy.
Distorted shadows and auto-luminescent figures emerge from an immersive darkness: a sublimation of internal landscapes, orgasmic sensations impossible to describe, transparencies that never show what is, distortions and amplifications, other layers of meaning that go beyond material reality allowing a projection into the future of humankind where sexuality’s very existence is not an accessory of its reproductive function but gains another unforeseen dimension of pleasure for its own sake and glory.
In Theresa Albrechts body of work the opposition between feminine and masculine gaze is dissolved and becomes an endless ocean of possibilities for sexual orientation and expressivity where blasphemy, joy and the free proliferation of desire transform the feminine gaze into a feminist transgressive act.
the body that fucks as the body that dances
is not a body that works
desire is thus an invitation to chaos
the pleasure a tool of resistance
we/they will not be reduced to bodies that work
to the binary consumer- consumed
we/they will not surrender to the polarisation
as object subjected to the all powerful subject
we/they will be the all empowered slayers of the norm
Text by Leonor Parda
Theresa Albrecht (b. 1992) is a female german artist and researcher working within the wide ocean of wet matters that are floating between concepts of bodies, ecology and art. Through her art she provides a possible imaginary of various aquatic fictions beyond the current limitations of gender, sexuality or other body-identities.
During her bachelor degree in history of art at Universität Leipzig she studied two years in Recife/ Brasil at Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, where she participated in various artistic projects and learned portuguese. In 2019 she moved to Porto/Portugal to complete her master degree at Faculdade de Belas Artes- Porto. In Porto and surroundings Theresa was realizing different group exhibitions and became a founding member of the artistic space ALESTE, where she had two soloexhibitions. Since 2022 she is based in Zürich/ Switzerland.