A central theme in Lindur’s work is the persistence of the ephemeral. In his pieces, he engraves digital interactions into glass or translates fleeting live chat discourses into text-based paintings. Here, he draws on the mechanisms of the archive – a concept that has been repeatedly explored in art since the conceptual movements of the 1960s. While artists like Hans Haacke or Marcel Broodthaers questioned documentation systems, Lindur operates within a radically contemporary space: He does not archive the static documents of the past but rather the hyper-dynamic communication of the digital age.

His approach to materiality intensifies this dialectic of transience and monumentality. The engraving of digital messages on glass iPhones imparts new permanence to content that is typically temporary, often delete immediately. Glass, a medium that symbolizes both transparency and fragility, becomes the physical manifestation of a moment that would otherwise vanish in the digital stream. These works stand in the tradition of conceptual media art while also evoking the aesthetics of ephemeral objects, as seen in Arte Povera or Post-Internet Art.

Moritz Lindur positions his work at a crucial point in contemporary art: he explores how reality manifests in the digital era, how fleeting social processes can be made visible, and how art can function as an archive of a collective, often anonymous, consciousness. His works engage deeply with the aesthetics of the documentary, the materiality of communication, and the structural dynamics of our urban society.