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The title Values & Values offers no clarification, only repetition. A word said twice doesn’t reinforce meaning; it doubles the ambiguity. The exhibition brings together Marius Steiger and Philipp Timischl, two artists whose practices engage with questions of value – economic, visual, moral, or material – while also drawing attention to how unstable and context-dependent such values can be. In English, “values” already carries multiple meanings; in Chinese, its translation only further disperses and complicates its significance. The pairing of the same word with itself implies a difference within sameness, a quiet contradiction that runs through the exhibition.
Both artists approach surface as a site where meaning is made, or at least made visible, though never fully trusted. Marius Steiger’s work begins with obsessive craft. His shaped canvases mimic the forms they depict: wooden planks, furniture, cars. But it’s not just vis…
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The title Values & Values offers no clarification, only repetition. A word said twice doesn’t reinforce meaning; it doubles the ambiguity. The exhibition brings together Marius Steiger and Philipp Timischl, two artists whose practices engage with questions of value – economic, visual, moral, or material – while also drawing attention to how unstable and context-dependent such values can be. In English, “values” already carries multiple meanings; in Chinese, its translation only further disperses and complicates its significance. The pairing of the same word with itself implies a difference within sameness, a quiet contradiction that runs through the exhibition.
Both artists approach surface as a site where meaning is made, or at least made visible, though never fully trusted. Marius Steiger’s work begins with obsessive craft. His shaped canvases mimic the forms they depict: wooden planks, furniture, cars. But it’s not just vis…
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