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artist statement

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My work focuses on sculpture and installation, whereby my works can be located at the intersection of arts and architecture. The found architectural space provides the inspiration for my mostly site-specific installations. I am fascinated by the details of our everyday architectural environment. Through artistic interventions, special features of the spatial environment are taken up, deconstructed and reassembled. What is added to the space attempts to reinterpret it and thereby make a changed perception of space and body possible. A clear distinction between space and artwork becomes blurred: the space determines the formal language of what is added to the space, and what is added in turn changes the space itself.

 

Clear divisions are also blurred on a formal level. Through an interplay of threads and the space between them, volumes seem to simultaneously assemble and dissolve. A clear outline of the physicality of the artwork becomes impossible and thus stands in contrast to the often seemingly rigid and unchangeable physicality of our, often inwardly closed, architectural environment.

 

Beyond an interest in the intersection of formal aspects of art and architecture, sociological and political questions also arise. For if the entire space is part of the artwork, this means that it is possible for the viewer to remain within the artwork. In fact, active movement through the artwork is necessary in order to fully grasp it. While the artwork directs the viewer's gaze and movement in certain directions, the artwork is also dependent on the movement and perception of the viewer itself. The space can only be experienced through one's own body, and at the same time the space can influence the perception of the own body. The absence of a pedestal and the accessibility or lack of accessibility of architecture and art become explicit. Hierarchies and permeability are called into question.

 

In addition to the artistic reinterpretation of existing spaces, the aspect of transience also characterizes the artistic work - most of the artworks no longer exist and could only be experienced for the duration of an exhibition. The pictorial documentation of the works is inadequate due to the lack of a personal experience of the space. The question remains as to whether the knowledge of transience and fleetingness intensifies one's own experience and perception of the surrounding, space and body.

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