Antonia Hirsch
Phenomenal Fracture
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| Editor(s) | Meike Behm |
| Author(s) | Meike Behm |
| Design | Adeline Morlon |
| Size | 21.6 x 27.9 cm |
| Cover | Swiss brochure |
| Pages | 64 |
| Illustrations | 37 |
| Language(s) | German, English |
| ISBN | 978-3-96912-232-7 |
In a probing engagement with the screen, an omnipresent object in contemporary life, Antonia Hirsch charts the gulf between the digital and the analog, the two spheres of which our perceived reality is composed. In provocative installations and objects, the artist conceives the distinctions between screen, mirror, and blade as less than sharply defined. Her works show rigidly geometric shapes made of hard and shimmering glass and steel; they encounter eerily somatic and perishable-looking cardboard or soft foamed-plastic components that recall the bodies they perhaps once served. Reflective surfaces mirror our gaze, but the less classy materials, too, await recognition by the beholder’s body. The book accompanies Hirsch’s solo exhibition Phenomenal Fracture at Kunsthalle Lingen; photographs and writings convey extensive and sustained impressions that run the gamut from the uncanny to the darkly humorous.
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