Susi Jirkuff
dal 27/11/2007 al 30/12/2007
Segnalato da
27/11/2007
Susi Jirkuff
Galerie Amer Abbas, Wien
Caught in loops. In her latest exhibition the artist presents drawings, animations and videos. In animated sequences, choreographies, she focuses the space that the body has at its disposal.
In her latest exhibition caught in loops at Galerie Amer Abbas, Susi Jirkuff presents drawings, animations and videos.
In animated sequences, choreographies, she focuses the space that the body has at its disposal. In the socio-political space, and the physical space: posing, automatic gestures, particular styles, which are frequently quotations, the space in the frame or within an installation.
Her investigations began with movements that imply latent aggression: the loading of a gun, taking a weapon from a drawer, men discussed with raised guns. Jirkuff alludes in her work to repeated themes of urban narratives produced by the media as reworked, for example, in the work shortly before the riots startet with images of security.
The appropriation and the contextualisation is also core to the choreographies. They should be treated as modules depending on the situation or exhibition context, and combined featuring new elements such as backdrop/spatial situation/sound.
They have been conceived as archives of everyday gestures and attitudes, going as far as dancing movements. This candid approach is also to be found in the series In my solitude , where Jirkuff has used colourful marker pens to apply different motifs to paper.
Opening 28 november 2007 at 7 pm
Galerie Amer Abbas
Schadekgasse 6-8, Wien
Free admission