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Ahu Dural - She Sees Nothing

Sammlung Friedrichshof

Photo © Maximilian Anelli-Monti

Feb 16 2017
Schleifmühlgasse 6/ HOF
Vienna 1040
19:00
free
Thursday, February 16, 2017
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In the course of her Finissage at STADTRAUM Ahu Dural is holding a lecture giving an insight into her working processes, her artistic research methods and the influences of feminist architectural theory on her work.
Ahu Dural was born in Berlin and lives in Berlin and Vienna where she studied Performative Art and Sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts with Monica Bonvicini. Besides her exhibition "She Sees Nothing" in the Stadtraum of Sammlung Friedrichshof she was represented, among others, in the group exhibition "Ein Anderes Land / Bir Başka Ülke" in Vienna and she was the winner of the Gustav-Peichl-Award for Architectual Drawing in 2016.
The artist finds inspiration for perception of space, her drawings, collages and objects in the reflection of works by the architects Eileen Gray, Charlotte Perriand and Jeanette Laverrière, as well as in an artistic way of working, which can be experienced on both a sensual and haptic level.

Starting point for her first institutional solo show in Vienna is a text fragment by Beatriz Colomina, she also referred to in her graduation presentation, which represents the basis for the exhibition title – „Remarkably, she is facing the wall. She Is almost an attachement to the wall. She sees nothing.“ New feminist genealogies and art-historical re-contextualisations are therefore applied. With regard to this, the parameters of the artist’s work methods as well as interests and sources of inspiration soon become clear: Space – Participants – Drawings.

In Dural’s works, perception of space in the exhibition concept, as well as drawing as a necessity of productive activity, plays a decisive role. As she brings the space from the paper to the actual exhibition space, her work in the presentation changes the state from two-dimensional drawing to the object front, just as vice versa sculptures in the room can function as a graphic for the artist. She confronts the reciprocal moment of working and hybrid graphics to a third moment that is meant to reflect these three parameters.

curated by Marie Oucherif

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