INFINITE VILLAGE / RAW/ABANDONMENT

(a spatial intervention)

35th TRIENNAL GRENCHEN (SWITZERLAND)

2018

Point of departure of the site-specific project `RAW/Abandonment` presented at the 21sts Triennal Grenchen was a room in its bare state, provided for this project on the premises of the Grenchen exhibition space.

 This `abandoned` space, which still showed traces of its former occupation and prior use (a print shop) is re-inhabited by the artists with a simple yet intriguing structure built out of new and used materials (wood,plastic foils,mirror foil, paper, paint). 

 These interferences with given topos are changing our level of perception regarding the existing space. The space is revived in such manner that it creates a new mental and visual context as well as it is respecting the prior `personality` and reminiscing its prior use.

This temporary installation aims to connect the erstwhile with the now implying the plentitude of possibilities for restructuring.the artistic intervention shall not be read as a pure `aesthetical` intervention but also as a place for reflection upon the manifold of aspects concerning our lives regarding our conditions.

The artistic intervention points beyond the mere visual appearance of the artistic creation towards the various levels and possibilities of perception and aims to challenge the viewer to extend his perceptual experience and to immerse into a world of thought 

This re-interpretation or re-inhabitation of the encountered space understands itself as an 

`open` structure, as a conscious as well as playful construction or reconstruction of spatiality within given topos. The accumulation of the diverse visual layers wants to initiate to reflect upon the multi-faceted interdependency of human existence and his natural or conditioned environment.

Within this spatial intervention, carefully integrated imprinted foils and other materials comment on the prior use of these facilities and interconnect the abandoned aura with the newly created ambiance.

This duality of the then and now manifests itself in three series of monotypes created by the artist on site, with left-over or re-used materials.