The Origin of Shapes is a contribution to the exhibition “Eine Ausstellung” (meaning: “an exhibition”), which reflects on both the daily materials used and the context of artistic and exhibition production.
The guiding questions of “Who made that?”, “Who’s the author?”, “Who are the authors?” poses a problem in exhibition production as many hands and brains are part of organising and realising such a cultural encounter.
The installation, consisting of three different spheres or objects, comments on these thoughts.
There’s a watermelon, planted, grown, sprayed, plucked, shipped, bought by numerous anonymous workers.
There’s a wooden stool, planned and crafted by a former teacher of the Mozarteum University.
There’s a cardboard shape, produced, found, cut-out, painted by one Art and Education student in Salzburg, Austria.
Suspended from wire threads, the three selected objects compose a mobile, asking how those three items come together at this place, in this exhibition, next to the other presented works.
The mobile is positioned slightly above eye-level and lit with strong headlights. Those spotlights create a shadow, turning the sculptural, three-dimensional objects into contorted abstractions of themselves.
Origin of Shapes, 2017, exhibition Eine Ausstellung, Barockmuseum Salzburg
Installation with watermelon, wooden stool, cardboard shape (crayon on cardboard), wire thread, tape, spotlights
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