Kai Franz’s “The Particles Fell Silent”, showing at ROCKELMANN&, is the artist’s first solo exhibition in Berlin. In his work Franz investigates notions of authorship and subjectivity. The artist sets up systems and builds machines that translate digital drawings and information into the nexus of matter and materiality. The results of these processes manifest in sculptures, paintings, drawings and etchings that challenge ideas and concepts of composition. In all cases, these works combine computational demarcation with the will of matter. In the midst of these aesthetic experiments, the exhibition “The Particles Fell Silent” establishes an economy of real and representation. Kai Franz was born in Cologne and lives and works in Providence, RI, USA, where he is an Assistant Professor at the Rhode Island School of Design.