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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.

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