Author Description

"The practice of the young Swiss artist Raphael Hefti (b. 1978) has its point of departure in the search for the still unrecognized potential of materials and industrial processes; the - amplified and aesthetic - imperfection of a sheet of metal or pane of glass marks its point of arrival. The artist intervenes not simply in technical processes, but equally in the manufacturing protocols of companies making industrial materials, whose production facilities become the laboratory for his observations. Just as his studios in Zurich and London operate in concert, so Raphael Hefti articulates his thinking and pursues his interventions via a collaborative system. After in-depth discussions with the technicians and engineers concerned, Hefti persuades these latter to push a technical procedure to the liminal point at which a transformation takes place at the heart of the material or upon its surface"--Gallery Website.