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Stone is omnipresent in all our lives; not least saliently, in the form of the architectures in which we live and work. In films, photographs, and sculptures, Aglaia Konrad grapples with the utopias and contradictions implicit in those architectures. The artist grew up in the Alps, and stone as the primeval material of rock formations and mountain landscapes as well as architecture has been central to her work from the outset.
For her installation projects, Konrad always begins from the given features of the exhibition venue. Her show Autofictions in Stone is a characteristic example: rather than abiding by the customary succession of the gallery’s rooms, the artist inverts the passage through them, starting in the long narrow room in the rear, which is illuminated by daylight from a broad ribbon window beneath the ceiling. She has also restored the exhibition spaces to their “original” condition: window openings and doorways that were later walled up have been...More
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Stone is omnipresent in all our lives; not least saliently, in the form of the architectures in which we live and work. In films, photographs, and sculptures, Aglaia Konrad grapples with the utopias and contradictions implicit in those architectures. The artist grew up in the Alps, and stone as the primeval material of rock formations and mountain landscapes as well as architecture has been central to her work from the outset.
For her installation projects, Konrad always begins from the given features of the exhibition venue. Her show Autofictions in Stone is a characteristic example: rather than abiding by the customary succession of the gallery’s rooms, the artist inverts the passage through them, starting in the long narrow room in the rear, which is illuminated by daylight from a broad ribbon window beneath the ceiling. She has also restored the exhibition spaces to their “original” condition: window openings and doorways that were later walled up have been...More
