Kategorie: vita

or: be fruitful and multiply

manipulated poplar seeds, replaced by tiny silver gelatin prints, air, glass tube, MDF, aluminium, electronic control, 200x15x15

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screen print on etched glass, sheet steel, various sizes

mosquitos on sheet film, enlargement on baryta paper, 54×40 cm each

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.

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

surrogates, 2022: analogue black and white prints on baryta paper, framed, 92×62 cm

experimental super 8 film, 3’17, stereo, 2023

an experimental film about the suspended state of mind when unintentional memories hit the conscious and leave you in a blurry feeling between closeness and uncertainty. shot on super 8 film, these images were transformed by a chemical reaction during development that resulted in a unique change in colour, impossible to reproduce. it displays fragile emotional fragments beyond clear ideas, a state of pause, gradually merging fragments of reality into subconscient.

ist jetzt später is a handbound artist’s book, produced in a limited edition of three copies. The work explores the impossibility of preserving fleeting moments while reflecting on the fragility and relativity of memory.
The book contains light-sensitive pages, each featuring latent images that gradually fade as they are viewed. This gradual transformation evokes the impermanence of memories – moments that can never be fully grasped, shifting slightly with each recollection. Some pages are fitted with transparent sheets, which, when viewed, expose the underlying light-sensitive pages, progressively revealing new motifs through this process. Other pages fix the state of latent images, presenting delicate snapshots that, in their aesthetic, never fully disclose whether they will continue to evolve or remain frozen.
In this way, ist jetzt später becomes a poetic meditation on the concepts of time and change. The artist’s book reveals the beauty of transitions and in-between states, which are only fully realized through their impermanence.

Eyebrows are a crucial element of nonverbal communication, as they define someone’s facial expressions and permit us to read emotions from a greater distance. In public, people often tend to avoid expressing big emotional reactions or hide their true emotional state behind set phrases or superficialities.

In this work, collected eyebrow hairs are used as material for emotional communication in form of a text. The large format photograph of the actually placed hairs brings public attention to a subtle personal message amongst loud and colourful advertisements.

offset print on advertising column, Neustiftgasse, 1070 Vienna.

vienna, june 2023