Opening, February 4, 2025, 6 pm
Exhibition, February 5 – March 21, 2025
Drawing upon architectural-historical analyses, Maruša Sagadin investigates the inclusions and exclusions in both social and physical spaces. With an eye for the ambiguity of prescribed spatial categories and functionalities, she creates sculptural works that accentuate spaces while opening them to a variety of uses. In doing so, her artistic settings shift the boundaries between public and private space and undermine conventional codes for the reception of artworks.
Kunstraum Lakeside, a venue that is only accessible at certain opening hours but can be seen into by passersby at any time of day thanks to its large display windows, inspired Sagadin to elaborate her experiments with permeations of public and private space. She will work with the medium of paper as found in public space, namely old advertising posters, which she paints over and glues together into “picture objects.” Reinforced with aluminum foil at the edges and formed into shape, the paper works resemble objects such as blinds, curtains, air conditioning units, railings, rain gutters, or fountains, and enter into a dialogue with the existing architectural forms in the exhibition space as new interior infrastructures.
The chosen materials and colors unlock the space on a temporal level, too: the repurposed, now seemingly obsolete paper still does its job of presenting alternatives to the present. They appear to be “futuristic visions,” but, according to the artist, “with no claim to posterity.”
Maruša Sagadin (b. 1978 in Slovenia) lives and works in Vienna.
www.sagadin.at
