Lattice is an experiment by artists Ramona Güntert and Joshua Phillips, bringing together a selection of works that embody a “patterned materiality” – a visual language shaped by form and force, time and matter. The title suggests an interplay between structure and ornament—the weaving of elements to create something that can be looked through and grown around, existing somewhere between the aesthetic and the functional.
As a verb, the term lattice may be thought of as a visual practice – gathering elements and bringing them together in order to form a cohesive pattern. Both artists reveal objects and artifacts of this nature, from analogue and digital photography, to assemblage of both found and made materials.
Güntert’s work draws inspiration from the apple harvest, using the natural cycle and its remnants as the foundation for her installation. Through the process of transformation, solid becomes liquid, unseen currents move through a sieve and leave a shimmer on the surface. This act of change mirrors the ritual of distillation, akin to alchemy or analogue photography where raw materials through energy (heat and light) are transmuted into new forms.
Phillips presents a series of works centered on a single motif: the crumbling structure of an English farmhouse. He uses this image of ruin as a metaphor to unpack broader concerns around national myths and the cultural sentiment contained in aesthetic principles like those of the Picturesque. An untidy sprawl of objects, reminiscent of a dilapidated building, through their visual treatment, become something nascent – material taking form, building becoming architecture.
Lattice as a collaborative narrative had a physical exhibition at Filet Space, London in November 2024; these ideas can now be considered virtually and on the artists’ sites.
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Ramona Güntert
Born in 1989 in Büsingen, Germany. Her practice looks at forms and shapes within nature which are mimicked by bodies of human and animals. She then uses the medium of photography, challenging its existence in print and exploring different material conditions. Her work is constantly transforming and adapting to different spaces, just like camouflage, which emphasises a relationship between the body and its environment but also attempts to question what lies in-between these spaces.
Recent exhibitions include Lattice at Filet, Agritourism at Gunia Nowik (2024), Hyperspace with Irruptive Chora at Iklectik, Preconscious Landscape at Ainalaiynspace (2023), and then it breaks at Equivalentbehaviour (2022), What on Earth at Koppel Project, can we dance again at SW Darkroom (2021), Chapters at Sankt Studio Berlin(2020), Rehearsing the Real at Peckham 24, The Same Tendency at Summerhall Edinburgh (2019), and COOP at Unseen Amsterdam (2018). She participated in Fotomuseum Winterthur Plat(t)form (2019) and Parallel Platform (2018), showcasing across Europe at Format Festival Derby, Landskrona Foto, Organvida Festival and Triennale at Deichtorhallen Hamburg. Her work has appeared in Linseed, Der Greif, Tjejland, and Photomonitor, and she was nominated for the Magnum Graduate Award (2017). Güntert has also taken part in international residencies at Aldama Fabre Gallery with Material Driven and Bilbao Arte (2023), Kaunas Gallery (2021), and LAPC at Guest Projects and the old CSM building with Koppel Project (2020). She lives and works in London.
Joshua Phillips is a visual artist living and working in London. His work develops out of an expanded approach to photography, encompassing scanning, digital fabrication, and site-specific installation. His current research explores how symbolism operates across decorative visual culture and how ornament can function to provide a momentary platform for aesthetic pleasure within the everyday.
In 2022/23, he was selected for the Two Temple Place residency by curators THORP STAVRI. His research aimed to connect the material histories of the building with broader narratives of power, imperialism, and resource extraction.
In 2021, Phillips completed the Flâneur ao Centro Residency in Portugal, commissioned by Procur.arte. The project culminated in four public installations across Leiria, Torres Vedras, Lourinhã and Bombarral. He was an artist in the first cycle of Parallel European Photo Platform, exhibiting work at Photo London (2019), Triennial of Photography Hamburg (2018), Landskrona Foto (2018) and Fotofestiwal Łódź (2018).
