A gallery during a lockdown, an open space closed, abandoned, transposed, to a vague place somewhere inbetween:
Terrain Vague
The textures & pieces one can find in this still environment are the remains of an underlying process & object. Surfaces that were hidden, under a layer of dust, behind text code or behind a façade, were uncovered and exhibited. The above becomes about the below. The leftovers conserve their authentic past, as the traces of the exterior, but at the same time estrange from the original terrain and subsist in another setting and context.
Installation with:
Rainer Stadlbauer (steelworks)
Andreas Perkmann Berger (framed print)
Installed on the rests and remains of the Notgalerie in Seestadt (Vienna),
build up in an alternative gallery space. Due to Covid-19 we could not travel to Prague.
A projection of the photo presents the absent works in Prague (see documentation below).
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2020
Photo: Tomáš Souček
Alternative Installation - Galerie SPZ Prague
Due to a lockdown in Prague we could not build up the exhibition as planned.
We presented a photo of our installation as a projection
accompanied by smaller works exhibited in the gallery.
(left Andreas Perkmann Berger, center Rainer Stadlbauer and on the right my latex imprints)
about:
about
the interstitial space
between a
carpet and the floor
Photos left & right: Tomáš Souček
work left & above right: Molting
work under (right): Coating
latex, ink & graphite powder
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2020
About my works:
Mould moulding
I lifted the corner of an old blue
rug and looked underneath. On the
other side I discovered a hull. An
organic coating, a living layer,
covering and tracing the below of
the rug, as the tiles on the floor
beneath. A place in-between.
Mould carpeting
detail from the latex imprint
on the ground (see photo above)
imprint with latex, ink & graphite powder
2020
Detail of the foot of the hanging imprint
latex, ink & graphite powder
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2020