Alethea Richter: Pulse Systems

Alethea Richter: Pulse Systems - April 10 to May 9

In response to our post-digital world, Alethea Richter’s Pulse Systems extends her engagement with digital fluidity and fixed structures through screenprinting. By translating digital marks alongside hand-generated marks, Richter explores the ephemeral qualities of screens—fluctuating luminosity, transient colours, and movement to create a dynamic works of expansion and contraction, that resists static interpretation.

Central to the print series is an exploration of process, play, material, and iteration by pushing against established structures and the insertion of the artist within this system. Richter begins with the creation of six interchangeable matrices which are combined to investigate how sequencing, layering, and colour interactions affect outcomes. This interplay between boundaries and intuitive decision-making reflects her broader inquiry into how much can be derived from within the parameters of a system, and the instability of presumed knowns. 

For Richter, screen-printing is both an inquiry and an evolving dialogue, where each layer and colour shift influences the next. Responding to what unfolds in the process, she negotiates control and unpredictability, allowing disruptions and subtle instabilities to shape the final composition. Pulse Systems embraces rhythm and repetition within fixed parameters, mirroring the logic of digital construction and dissemination while pushing against rigid structures. Through this material and conceptual exploration, Pulse Systems reconsiders how we experience images—how we see, interpret, and feel the digital world materialised in physical form. The compositions resist definitive resolution, instead encouraging dynamic engagement with the viewer—an invitation to slow down and navigate the layered complexities of contemporary visual culture.