Inés Lombardi
25 Feb - 15 May 2011
INÉS LOMBARDI
Past Present – Close and Distant
February 25 – May 15, 2011
Inés Lombardi's repertoire includes photographs, videos, and installations as well as sculptures and objects. The point of departure for her multifaceted oeuvre is the assumption that human perception, far from being absolute, is a process that is subject to constant change. The artist probes the conditions under which a perceptive displacement can take place, and how such a shift can reveal the construction of reality. Of central importance in this context are questions immanent to art regarding presentation and representation. By repeatedly breaking with the various visual levels that define her work, Lombardi not only generates a series of references that can be continued ad infinitum, she also creates chains of associations that are open to rearrangement and interpretative extension. That is especially evident when, in a self-reflective move, she takes up individual aspects from earlier works and presents them in new variations: as an object, as a photograph of the object, or as a photograph of the object in a spatial situation also shown in the photographic representation of the object. This feedback mechanism and the recurrent break with it reveal the dynamism of perception in Inés Lombardi's works: for condensation and interconnectedness can give rise to innovation.
Inés Lombardi, b. São Paulo (BR) 1958, lives and works in Vienna (AT).
Past Present – Close and Distant
February 25 – May 15, 2011
Inés Lombardi's repertoire includes photographs, videos, and installations as well as sculptures and objects. The point of departure for her multifaceted oeuvre is the assumption that human perception, far from being absolute, is a process that is subject to constant change. The artist probes the conditions under which a perceptive displacement can take place, and how such a shift can reveal the construction of reality. Of central importance in this context are questions immanent to art regarding presentation and representation. By repeatedly breaking with the various visual levels that define her work, Lombardi not only generates a series of references that can be continued ad infinitum, she also creates chains of associations that are open to rearrangement and interpretative extension. That is especially evident when, in a self-reflective move, she takes up individual aspects from earlier works and presents them in new variations: as an object, as a photograph of the object, or as a photograph of the object in a spatial situation also shown in the photographic representation of the object. This feedback mechanism and the recurrent break with it reveal the dynamism of perception in Inés Lombardi's works: for condensation and interconnectedness can give rise to innovation.
Inés Lombardi, b. São Paulo (BR) 1958, lives and works in Vienna (AT).