Marit Wolters. Everything That Is Solid Dissolves Into Air

20.06.2017 - 03.09.2017

Austrian Cultural Forum, New York / United States

The Austrian Cultural Forum New York is pleased to present the site-specific summer art installation Everything That Is Solid Dissolves Into Air by Erste Bank ExtraVALUE Art Award 2018 recipient Marit Wolters. On display from June 20 to September 3, Everything That Is Solid Dissolves Into Air questions the ties we have with the structures that constitute our society. By breaking up standardized methods of processing and assembling materials, the relation between fragility, transformation, and a solid base envisions a social structure where each component is taken into account....

For her first solo exhibition in New York, Vienna-based artist Marit Wolters uses materials that are known from the construction industry. She creates aerated concrete sculptures and reinforced steel structures in a dialectic process of assembly and disassembly, demolding and reformulation. Her processual work allows for the possibility of failure as a method of development and constitution. In her sculptures the potential of collapsing is present, sometimes endured, often exploited, in order to make new assemblages possible. What is assumed and perceived as stable becomes fragile and fragmentary, a metaphor of our time.


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