movement, all right. we have several works that deal with movement and not lasting conditions. do you want to see
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be fruitful and multiply – video
be fruitful and multiply, 2024, 4K Video, stereo sound, 6’42
manipulation of 1000 poplar seeds, replaced them with a tiny silver gelatin print
be fruitful and multiply
or: genesis of senselessness
manipulated poplar seeds, replaced by tiny silver gelatin prints, air, glass tube, MDF, aluminium, electronic control, 200x15x15
beinahe schon Mai
screen print on etched glass, sheet steel, various sizes
faith and politics
mosquitos on sheet film, enlargement on baryta paper, 54×40 cm each
i’ll keep it if you don’t
duo show together with Anna Carina Roth at Art Space Spektakel, Vienna
the exhibition was funded by Stadt Wien Kultur, Bezirk Margarethen, Land Burgenland.
stacked memories
part of the group exibition more than one surface
curated by tsai-ju wu, site specific art / paulusplatz, vienna
stacked memories, 2023
installation, various stacks of different materials (glass, aluminium, wood, cardboard), dimensions variable
performative intervention recalling memories with Paula Kreuzer, live projection, sound
Stacks are structured forms of organization. Stacks symbolize order and system. But also preservation, storage, existing possibilities. You pile things that haven’t been used or done yet. Stacks can be reserve, providing unclaimed information or a sign of being overwhelmed. A collection of unrealized possibilities.
We tend to make pictures in order to conserve moments and keep memories. Even though there has been a lot of research on how the human brain stores memories and organizes information, we still don’t know exactly what happens in the brain when we remember something and how we organize and access stored memories. do we transform perceptions of situations, feelings, realities that we used to live, when we think about them? could one compare the brain to a library or a stocking place? what happens to these compressed memories when we reconstruct them? How fragile are they?
this installation shows a metaphoric depiction of stored memories distributed in the exhibition space. the stacks are composed by plates of several materials that are usually used for the construction of photographic images, similar in size to ancient glass diapositives. through a performative intervention, the installation will be transformed by the interaction of human bodies with the stacks.
recalling memories
Performance with Paula Kreuzer
november 11th 2023, 19h30, paulusplatz 5
part of the ok transit exhibition series, curated by Tsai-Ju Wu,
department of site-specific art, vienna