Drawing on their shape-shifting, mimic-octopus-like practice, on alternative art-historical genealogies and on an interest in some of the metaphysical strands of abstraction, KAYA (Kerstin Brätsch & Debo Eilers) explores artistic fields of discourse and activities situated beyond the canvas, in order to engage with a multiversal reality.
The work of KAYA incorporates aspects of painting, sculpture and performance into a working process that is also designed to invite a collective expansion. The identity of the artists and the question of authorship are destabilised, as is the relationship between painting and corporeality (body-space). Through the use of chance and error, craft and technology, painting’s animistic qualities and metaphysics, KAYA transforms categories such as process, product, reception, subject and subjectivity.
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- Venue
- Festung Hohensalzburg
- Date
- 14. – 26. 8. 23
- What to bring:
- Please bring 1 short sentence (english) of your choice. This sentence can be your own writing, from your favorite book or poem or from any other source of media you relate to Please bring your artist statement (200 words) Please bring 5 A4 color-print outs of your artworks Please bring 5 digital images of your work (or a digital pdf of your work) Please bring an old painting you are very unhappy with