Moritz, Lovers 2, 2026, Fine art print.

Crystin Moritz’s Lovers series explores intimacy, trust, and the act of holding - physically and emotionally. These works reflect on the precarious balance between connection and suffocation. The figures in Lovers appear on the verge of finding and losing themselves. Intimacy is presented as a momentary alignment rather than a stable state. Rest is found in brief instances of surrender, followed by the need for distance.

By combining the visual language of analogue photography with contemporary AI processes, Crystin introduces uncertainty into perception itself. What can be trusted - the image, the tool, the feeling? The moment of intimacy here is real, but temporary. Like rest, it cannot be held indefinitely. It arrives, dissolves, and returns in another form.

The program is part of the exhibition Active Rest: An Exploration of Time, 20 February – 4 April 2026.

Crystin Moritz is a Vienna-based visual artist working with photography, video, and artificial intelligence. After studying photography in Berlin, she assisted Axel Hoedt and Laetitia Negre in London and developed a practice initially rooted in fashion photography. Her work has since expanded into AI-generated and hybrid image-making, where analogue aesthetics meet digital processes. Through exhibitions and collaborations in Austria and internationally, Moritz explores questions of identity, perception, and visual authorship, creating unsettling and speculative image worlds that challenge established photographic conventions.