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Nuri Koerfer's sculptural practice hybridises the autonomous artistic concept of the inoperative object with its counterpart, the object of utility. She playfully propels chairs, benches, shelves, and tables towards other, unintended forms of use, without abandoning their original functionality as furniture. In addition, the gravity of Koerfer's sculptures is altered by the intertwining of the normally strictly separate spheres of the animal world and furniture, the latter already offering numerous empty spaces for the weight of humans and their objects. Relationships and proportionality – initially genuine sculptural questions – expand from the formal to a more general level through these juxtapositions, without offering any rash answers or solutions.
The works in ‘Shelfs’, Koerfer's exhibition for the Kunstverein, focus less on furniture that suggests proximity to the human body or c…
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Nuri Koerfer's sculptural practice hybridises the autonomous artistic concept of the inoperative object with its counterpart, the object of utility. She playfully propels chairs, benches, shelves, and tables towards other, unintended forms of use, without abandoning their original functionality as furniture. In addition, the gravity of Koerfer's sculptures is altered by the intertwining of the normally strictly separate spheres of the animal world and furniture, the latter already offering numerous empty spaces for the weight of humans and their objects. Relationships and proportionality – initially genuine sculptural questions – expand from the formal to a more general level through these juxtapositions, without offering any rash answers or solutions.
The works in ‘Shelfs’, Koerfer's exhibition for the Kunstverein, focus less on furniture that suggests proximity to the human body or c…
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