Portrait of artist Superfly 1.3% at NOTAGALLERY gallery in Kreuzberg, Berlin

ARTIST

Superfly 1.3 %

Superfly 1.3% (Virginia,1977) has been based in Berlin since 1999. With over twenty-five years of experience, Superfly 1.3% has cultivated a practice that merges technical precision with poetic vision, focusing on rope, textiles, and organic matter as both medium and metaphor. His installations draw from the structural and meditative traditions of macramé while expanding into contemporary explorations of suspension, trust, and release. Working with hemp rope, antler, leather, and vivid red fabric, Superfly 1.3% creates environments where the body, or its echo, becomes part of a sculptural dialogue. His long-standing experience in roping and suspension, often involving the human form, informs a meticulous process that prioritizes safety, consent, and care. This close attention to detail allows for the emergence of intimacy and vulnerability, where participants can surrender control within a framework of trust. For Superfly 1.3%, rope is a primal technology, one of the earliest human inventions, yet in his hands it becomes a language for exploring freedom, boundaries, and transcendence. His installations are not designed to restrain but to connect, inviting viewers into a state of contemplation and meditative stillness. The red fabric functions symbolically as a pulse within the work, representing spirit, blood, and breath, which, in dialogue with the surrounding space, threads together presence, body, and architecture. Superfly 1.3%`s practice is deeply informed by Berlin itself: its layered histories, improvisational street textures, and constant collisions of culture. These influences seep into his material choices and spatial constructions, grounding his work in both place and process. Through his installations, Superfly 1.3% aims to open a reflective space where audiences can reconsider their relationship to control, vulnerability, and trust, ultimately offering rope as a threshold between release and freedom.

Selected Works

The Giving Thread
SuperFly 1.3%The Giving Thread
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