weaving sculptures
5 pieces, dimensions variable
scrap paper, print outs and copies of Cathrin Pichler’s Archive, images printed on plastic folie, chicken wire, lacquer, pigment, acryl, clay, fake nails
optional: plinths out of found objects from Augasse 2-6 (Alte WU)
the work was commissioned by the Cathrin Pichler Archive and produced in close dialogue with the curators Leon Hösl and Magdalena Stöger
2024
Pictures from the exhibition “Feast # 1: Specks of Dust” in Pfefferhof, Vienna, Austria © Pille-Riin Jaik and 1-2 Eva Paijens.
SHORT CONCEPT
Cigarette buds, bare sculpture wire, unfinished weavings stretching outwards, crumbling soft clay on hard metal, images of melancholy from Cathrin Pichler’s research in her archive of her personal notes, red nails hanging heavy with gravity, a piece of a 80’s office ceiling panel – this work was born out of close interaction with the personal archive of a legendary curator entailing decades of her research, but also in parallel to the many escalations of the current wars around the world. Is every person a tiny world that dies? What can grow out of rubble if one is forced to live in it? In many ways this work deals with grief of the lost worlds that could have been possible, but also celebrates the resistance of the ones growing nonetheless the circumstances. The title is a reference to a term “Planet X” that has been used for a celestial body that is suspected to exist but has not been confirmed yet.
Pictures from the exhibition "Das Cathrin Pichler Archiv von RPU-Artaud-001 bis DAV-Plakate-029" in Exhibit Gallery, Vienna, Austria. © Pille-Riin Jaik, 9 by Hunter and 7 & 10 by Peter Mochi.