Esther Stocker
01 Feb - 06 Apr 2008
ESTHER STOCKER
"geometrically considered"
Opening: 31.01.08–7.00 p.m.
Esther Stocker (b.1974) presents a new installation in the MUMOK Factory where structures of order are simultaneously asserted and subverted. Her work, which presents 'geometrifying' patterns and signs in a reduced black, white and grey system, has here configured an encompassing space enabling variable and complex ways of experience and perception.
With explicit reference to the history of constructivism and digital and cinematographic imagery, Esther Stocker’s work addresses perception itself as a dynamic process. Here strict pattern and grid based structures are broken, allowing shifts and overlapping spaces to create different coordinates of order.
The installation at the MUMOK is made up of identical white rods with a quadratic cross-section mounted in a black room at regular intervals to the floor, walls and ceiling. The rods transform the space itself into an 'image.' While the borders seem to become lost in the ethereal darkness, the white rods stand out as metric marks delineating a certain space. One finds oneself within a clearly defined image space, the appearance of which continually alters as one works one’s way through the room, staging a complex and variable visual experience. As a viewer in the 'picture,' one is both spectator and motif seen by others. While the immobile rods overlap each other differently, both a literal and figurative viewing and reading becomes possible in this order based on perspective and open processes.
Curator
Rainer Fuchs
"geometrically considered"
Opening: 31.01.08–7.00 p.m.
Esther Stocker (b.1974) presents a new installation in the MUMOK Factory where structures of order are simultaneously asserted and subverted. Her work, which presents 'geometrifying' patterns and signs in a reduced black, white and grey system, has here configured an encompassing space enabling variable and complex ways of experience and perception.
With explicit reference to the history of constructivism and digital and cinematographic imagery, Esther Stocker’s work addresses perception itself as a dynamic process. Here strict pattern and grid based structures are broken, allowing shifts and overlapping spaces to create different coordinates of order.
The installation at the MUMOK is made up of identical white rods with a quadratic cross-section mounted in a black room at regular intervals to the floor, walls and ceiling. The rods transform the space itself into an 'image.' While the borders seem to become lost in the ethereal darkness, the white rods stand out as metric marks delineating a certain space. One finds oneself within a clearly defined image space, the appearance of which continually alters as one works one’s way through the room, staging a complex and variable visual experience. As a viewer in the 'picture,' one is both spectator and motif seen by others. While the immobile rods overlap each other differently, both a literal and figurative viewing and reading becomes possible in this order based on perspective and open processes.
Curator
Rainer Fuchs