Les voix des fleuves Crossing the water
Liesl Raf – corridor, 2024
2024
Metal, latex, pigment, talc
Venue
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Metropolitan area
Born in 1979 in Stuttgart, Germany
Lives and works in Vienna, Austria
Liesl Raff’s sculptural work explores notions of human relationships, social ties and behavioural roles. These concerns are clear in the choice and composition of particular materials. The artists works with latex both for painting — as a liquid applied to walls — and for sculpture, where she uses it in solid form to create objects. She combines it with metal to provide models of how different foreign elements can live together. Designed as spaces to be traversed, Liesl Raff’s installations invite physical, sensory and collective interaction.
The installation corridor is conceived as a zone of transit within the immense halls of the Grandes Locos. Visitors are encouraged to walk through the work in order to experience a private retreat from the world. In these railway workshops, previously given over to repairs, Liesl Raff’s work creates a protected space, conducive to peace and tranquillity. The artist has an affective relationship with her sculpture, lavishing all kinds of special care and attention on it. As it resonates with the history and geography of the site, corridor, with its many coloured reflections, engages the visitor in a dialogue with the environment, at the same time developing new rituals of openness to others and to nature.
Courtesy de l’artiste and Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zurich / Vienna
Creation for the 17th Lyon Biennale
In collaboration with Phileas - The Austrian Office for Contemporary Art
With the support of the Austrian Ministry of Culture and the Austrian Cultural Forum Paris
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