Nathalie Miebach: Restless Waters

ICA San Diego / Central, September 21, 2024 - January 26, 2025

Nathalie Miebach (b.1972, Zeven, Germany, lives Boston, MA) foregrounds the human relationship to data in her meticulously researched practice. Using basket-weaving techniques to transform a variety of material into sculpture, wall installations, and 2D weavings, Miebach has devised her own visual languages to describe our reciprocal relationship with data.  

Working most often with weather data, each material in her work corresponds to a different datapoint, giving form to the human experience of catastrophic events such as hurricanes and the Covid-19 pandemic. Miebach takes an expansive approach to her data sets, incorporating anecdotal information–such as the number of sunny days in a month, her own mask-wearing comfort levels, and tweets from disaster zones–to create a more comprehensive and personal record of these experiences. For Restless Waters, Miebach’s  first exhibition in San Diego, she will produce a new sculpture based on California’s recent extreme weather. 

Photos by Philipp Scholz Ritterman