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Marlena Kudlicka continues her interest in peripheral space and its incompleteness: holes, fragments, abandoned sites. While examining the aspects of such sites, she is interested how fragility activates space. For the artist fragility indicates a chance to reconsider the whole in relation to its history, the past and the present. Like incompleteness, fragility acts as a counterpoint and is crucial to making space “complete.”
In Kudlicka’s work, the objects are constructed on an underlying basis of counterpoints. The elements function on the verge of stability, creating a certain structure of dependency and irrationality. In dealing with space the artist treats a given place like a canvas where weight, volume, colors, contours and edges are distributed across one continuum. The manner of display can be visually likened to the punctuation in a sentence.
Kudlicka uses quotes and elements of the avant-garde and re-evaluates their contemporary relevance. By doing so, she combines “high” material such as polished steel, glass with “low” materials such as mdf, concrete, bitumen, roofing paper, wire, enamel. Her installations thus combine constructivist elegance with a certain DIY gesture.
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