The buildings in the construction-drawings of Iris Frerichs come into being through a process of cutting, tearing, pen-drawing, glueing, evolving bit by bit.
The many different appearances the urban landscape can take fascinate her: it is at one time both a large, anonymous area and the home to many individual human beings.
Like a person in the masses, a building can stand alone, have its own visual appearance and identity, but submerge in and become a part of its surroundings the next moment or from someone elses viewpoint.
Many different components such as buildings, persons, things, materials have their own drive for being and for becoming. Yet in their interplay, partly by accident, partly by plan, new forms, new structures appear.
Through her drawings of buildings and other constructions, Frerichs researches the tension between the inside and the outside world, and the borders between the fragile and the robust. The constant construction and destruction of the city are captured both in form and in the materials used. Her buildings are caught seemingly frozen in a moment in time, in the midst of their ongoing development and changing visual appearances.