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Marking the inauguration of the Constant Story of the Year, Moritz Führer presents new work. Turn of the Century (2026) stems from an accumulation of online video material gathered through incidental browsing: fitness performers, bodybuilders, contortionists, self-stylized figures encountered across platforms whose endless circulation blurs spectacle and algorithmic drift, choreography and personal aspiration ultimately. The videos are not searched for with precision so much as stumbled upon. Their attraction lies partly in displays of discipline and excessive bodily control, partly in the unstable threshold where idealized self-presentation becomes susceptible to desire, projection and objectification. Within Führer’s sculptural practice, these images undergo another conversion. A body is no longer represented but processed, essentially flattened into surface, extracted into contour and redistributed as volume. Objectification enters a recursive loop in which the original image gradually loses relevance, becoming matter rather than depiction. A historical reference worth to consider for this operation is Cubism and its attempt to register simultaneity within static form, collapsing multiple temporal perspectives into a single visual field. Where Cubist painting sought to hold several viewpoints at once, Führer’s sculptural cut-outs derive from moving images producing another compression of time where chronology folds inward. What reveals sequentially in video appears simultaneously in space. The performer’s fictional torso becomes volume for its image itself, while the performer, paradoxically, evaporates into surface. Body persists here as both excess and absence. While the work depends entirely upon it for form and mass, the figure simultaneously dissolves under conditions of incessant procession. Perhaps this condition approaches an inverse logic of a narration without characters, like a disembodied voice moving through cinematic space. In both cases, space is constituted through the body, either through overwhelming presence or through its complete withdrawal.