Anrea Palasti
Violetta Leitner
Paloma Tendero
Exhibition 02.03 - 17.03.2018, Th-Sa 17-21°°
Corporeal is an exhibition that features the work of three artists questioning themes of physical and metaphorical body shapes. In each of the works, the artists found an unique way to explore the concept of the physical forms. Through photography and installation they reflect social norms and raise essential questions.
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Andrea Palašti is a visual artist, born in 1984 in Novi Sad, Serbia. She holds a master’s degree in Photography at the Academy of Art, University of Novi Sad. In 2015, she graduated with PhD in Art and media theory from the University of Arts in Belgrade. Works across artistic and curatorial boundaries that experiments with archives, methodologies and contextual aspects of art, concentrating on issues of cultural geography, history and the everyday life. In her work she is investigating the cultural, social and/or political circumstances in her country and the region, often with playful and humorous attitude. Since 2006, she has been exhibiting and collaborating with different artists, art collectives and initiatives.
Tata / from the series Home workouts
I gave an assignment to my mother to photograph my father, Ivica. After about three weeks she get bored with it, because - as she says - Ivica is always at the same place with the same face.
Home workouts is a work in progress, and it consist of different single workouts, which are conceived as communication exercises and workout routines that can be easily achieved with minimal equipment, time and/or effort and that can be performed with or without family members at home or from home. The workout routines are mostly directed, and are investigating a particular phenomenon within a family’s everyday. They represent a humorous exploratory analysis of issues of history, identity, gender, economics and/or politics. Home workouts employ collaborations and curatorial impulses into the project - for instance, commission, gathering and displaying the work of others. Home workouts were created in response to previously directed short-term tasks, which than proliferated to works that were already realized in the past that transcribed vital processes in the interaction between the free and controlled everyday. Therefore, Home workouts reveal how social and cultural developments and political ideologies affect the construction of the everyday.
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Lena Violetta Leitner is the cofounder of Kollektiv OutSight and the Running Sushi Filmfestival and the founder of IZMP (Integration Centre for Migrated Plants). She graduated in Digital Arts at the University of Applied Arts Vienna as well as Japanese Studies and Theatre-, Film-, Mediastudies in Vienna, Paris and Zagreb.
She writes, records, likes to make noise and work together with inspiring people. After various residencies abroad (Serbia, Croatia, Macedonia, France, Switzerland) she currently lives and works in Vienna, Austria.
www.izmp.eu / www.kollektivoutsight.com
my momma told me to hold it back
Installation, 2013, bras, microcontroller, metal, motor
Outworn, old bras from different friends are put together in a line. This intimate sculpture is being fixed vertically on the floor and the ceiling of the room. A motor pulls the bras in different directions, so that the material is being slowly stretched and then released again. An organic rhythm, based on the womens‘ breath is being created.
The installation has initially being created for the Venice Biennale Sessions and since then has been shown in different locations, always adapting to the sidespecific context.
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Paloma Tendero is a visual artist, born in Spain. After completing a BA in Fine Arts at University Complutense, Madrid. She went on to graduate from the MA Photography at the London College of Communication. Since 2010, she has been exhibiting and collaborating with different artists, participating in health and wellbeing through the arts programmes. In 2017, she finished an Artist Residency at Kentish Town Health Centre, London. Currently she is Artist in Residence at Kulturkontakt in Vienna.
www.palomatendero.com
Inside Out
Our bodies are containers which house our anatomy, alongside the stored memories of who we are and where we came from. Their forms betray a sculptural expression of each individual’s inheritance. While we attempt to craft ourselves into unique beings, separated from familial features and traits, our genetic and biological characteristics remain outside of our control, sewn inside us at the very moment of conception.
Paloma Tendero’s work explores physical and psychological relationships that spring from this inherited determinism. In the Inside Out series she looks at the influence of genetic disease, passed along family lines, which renders the body vulnerable to an unrequested destiny. By setting an imagined internal body alongside its real external form, Tendero weaves in issues arising out of the emotional struggle between such biological determinism and the countering effect of self-will.
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Andrea Palašti is a visual artist, born in 1984 in Novi Sad, Serbia. She holds a master’s degree in Photography at the Academy of Art, University of Novi Sad. In 2015, she graduated with PhD in Art and media theory from the University of Arts in Belgrade. Works across artistic and curatorial boundaries that experiments with archives, methodologies and contextual aspects of art, concentrating on issues of cultural geography, history and the everyday life. In her work she is investigating the cultural, social and/or political circumstances in her country and the region, often with playful and humorous attitude. Since 2006, she has been exhibiting and collaborating with different artists, art collectives and initiatives.
Tata / from the series Home workouts
I gave an assignment to my mother to photograph my father, Ivica. After about three weeks she get bored with it, because - as she says - Ivica is always at the same place with the same face.
Home workouts is a work in progress, and it consist of different single workouts, which are conceived as communication exercises and workout routines that can be easily achieved with minimal equipment, time and/or effort and that can be performed with or without family members at home or from home. The workout routines are mostly directed, and are investigating a particular phenomenon within a family’s everyday. They represent a humorous exploratory analysis of issues of history, identity, gender, economics and/or politics. Home workouts employ collaborations and curatorial impulses into the project - for instance, commission, gathering and displaying the work of others. Home workouts were created in response to previously directed short-term tasks, which than proliferated to works that were already realized in the past that transcribed vital processes in the interaction between the free and controlled everyday. Therefore, Home workouts reveal how social and cultural developments and political ideologies affect the construction of the everyday.
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Lena Violetta Leitner is the cofounder of Kollektiv OutSight and the Running Sushi Filmfestival and the founder of IZMP (Integration Centre for Migrated Plants). She graduated in Digital Arts at the University of Applied Arts Vienna as well as Japanese Studies and Theatre-, Film-, Mediastudies in Vienna, Paris and Zagreb.
She writes, records, likes to make noise and work together with inspiring people. After various residencies abroad (Serbia, Croatia, Macedonia, France, Switzerland) she currently lives and works in Vienna, Austria.
www.izmp.eu / www.kollektivoutsight.com
my momma told me to hold it back
Installation, 2013, bras, microcontroller, metal, motor
Outworn, old bras from different friends are put together in a line. This intimate sculpture is being fixed vertically on the floor and the ceiling of the room. A motor pulls the bras in different directions, so that the material is being slowly stretched and then released again. An organic rhythm, based on the womens‘ breath is being created.
The installation has initially being created for the Venice Biennale Sessions and since then has been shown in different locations, always adapting to the sidespecific context.
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Paloma Tendero is a visual artist, born in Spain. After completing a BA in Fine Arts at University Complutense, Madrid. She went on to graduate from the MA Photography at the London College of Communication. Since 2010, she has been exhibiting and collaborating with different artists, participating in health and wellbeing through the arts programmes. In 2017, she finished an Artist Residency at Kentish Town Health Centre, London. Currently she is Artist in Residence at Kulturkontakt in Vienna.
www.palomatendero.com
Inside Out
Our bodies are containers which house our anatomy, alongside the stored memories of who we are and where we came from. Their forms betray a sculptural expression of each individual’s inheritance. While we attempt to craft ourselves into unique beings, separated from familial features and traits, our genetic and biological characteristics remain outside of our control, sewn inside us at the very moment of conception.
Paloma Tendero’s work explores physical and psychological relationships that spring from this inherited determinism. In the Inside Out series she looks at the influence of genetic disease, passed along family lines, which renders the body vulnerable to an unrequested destiny. By setting an imagined internal body alongside its real external form, Tendero weaves in issues arising out of the emotional struggle between such biological determinism and the countering effect of self-will.
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