“REAL-LIFE SEQUENCES”
“real-life sequences”As concrete units of reference, the spatial installations of Jochen Mura grasp the spatial conditions on site just as they grasp the sketched reality of tangible objects. Whatever Mura’s objects represent, they do not represent the image of tangible reality, which we have interpreted and perceived to have always understood. Even though they have been borrowed from the “real” world, they are excluded from their “actual” context; in the end, they form an open concept. Here, the objects, mostly produced from “simple” materials, do not want to be deceivingly genuine reproductions. They do not want to deceive us, the viewers. Instead, they wish to disappoint us by pointedly showing us what we do not see, and, conversely, placing for debate that what we do see.
Room-filling installations are the aftermath of our battle with “spaces” just as the reduced hybrid “model” objects compiled from various real-life sequences are so.