The topic of my current work is Dividuum (... That's where the molecular-revolutionary machines separate and meet Body machines, the social machines with the text machines, there emerges from manifold spirit hand the dividual-abstract line. Gerald Raunig, an Austrian philosopher)
The term dividual (that which can be divided) goes back to the Theologian Gilbert of Poitiers (around 1100), who thus dichotomy of the individual and the general breaks through and a new one dimension in which the parts of a non-whole are divided into a non-hierarchical, transversal relationship can be set. The individual arises in the scattering, in the transversal distribution, in the drawing of the abstract line that crosses and links concrete individual things. Even today used to describe recent capitalist transformations, rather, the dividual view enables us to see molecular revolutions and associated processes of becoming to be discovered without looking at the representation of the unified subject by authorities, parties or avant-gardes to be dependent.

The series „Caput mortuum“ (2021): In his work cycle "Caput mortuum", Latin for „skull“, Wolfgang Seierl first refers to the pigment of the same name made from iron sulphate, which resembles the color of coagulated blood and which has been found in Seierl's works for a long time. This cycle is a confrontation with nothing less than death and at the same time with human life. The literary-philosophical reference in this work, which determines its intention more closely. is Friedrich Nietzsche's second Dionysus dithyramb, in which the "glowing brown" corresponds to the color and the image of the "desert" to its meaning. The picture of death drawn by Nietzsche is ambivalent: fire and light, and sand. Man is the caput mortuum in the desert.
There is another central element in Seierl's work, that of fire and its traces - burn marks. As Goethe writes in his Theory of Colors, fire increases the intensity of the color pigments, and black is also created by burning. And really, the pictorial elements reminiscent of wounds, injuries and burn marks transport intensities and energies.

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Wolfgang Seierl