The camera explores what eludes our perception. We look into the depths of time and space where the creation and passing of the universe crystallize out of salt and ink.

Julia Münstermann’s work revolves around light and the visualization of the invisible in art and science. She explores how our perception changes through the technical image and how our visible world expands through scientific progress. In her ongoing research, she is deeply involved with problems of scientific visualization that go beyond the borders of the visible, delving into the microscopic world of elementary particles and the macroscopic world of astrophysics.
The film ENTROPY is the result of an artistic experiment with ink and salt, captured in stop motion. As a physical measuring principle, entropy refers to the disorder that is progressively increasing in the universe. This is countered by the force of gravity, which brings forth entities such as galaxies, solar systems, and planets. In her series, ENTROPY (ongoing since 2020), Julia Münstermann employs the opposing principles of order and disorder, structure, and chaos to create pictorial compositions. Recalling black-and-white images captured by powerful space telescopes, this group of process-based ink and salt works evokes interstellar nebulae, black holes, stellar clusters, and other cosmic phenomena: views into the depths of outer space, which appears in ever-changing configurations.
The artist, who is active in the expansive field of painting and is concerned with scientific research and the visualization of the intangible, conflates intention and coincidence here in an aesthetic experiment. In her cosmic pictorial spaces, liquid ink collides with salt crystals, whose solvation energy generates unpredictable galactic structures, just like gravity does in the universe. Thus, in the pictorial space, the emergence of formations in outer space is replayed, which spring forth from the confrontation between order and chaos. This recreation of the universe is best shown in the process and formation of the ink and salt drawings, leading the artist to use time-based media to realize the film ENTROPY.