“The Museum Langmatt presents the fifth instalment in the exhibition series «Space Travel», a platform for young Swiss art in the Langmatt’s former cellar spaces. The focus is on new artistic modes of speaking, especially installations, new media, and formulations that transcend genres. At the same time, «Space Travel» also traces contentual tendencies in contemporary art, and suggests thematic categories. Space Travel V focuses on subjective future scenarios. Depending upon who is looking into the crystal ball, fantastic utopias or terrible dystopias appear. For the younger generation, the boundaries between utopia and dystopia appear to become increasingly blurred: a small change in the perspective or the colour, and the rapture becomes a dark sense of foreboding. Many artworks have as their theme the precarious relationship between humans and nature, interweaving materials, processes and spaces to create diverse and diffuse worlds.“
ARTISTS
Maya Hottarek (* 1990, Chironico TI), lebt und arbeitet in Biel. 2013 – 2016 Bachelor of Fine Arts, Hochschule der Künste, Bern. 2019 – 2021 Master of Fine Arts, Institut Kunst, fhnw, Basel. www.mayahottarek.com
Matheline Marmy (* 1993, Genf), lebt und arbeitet dort. 2012 – 2016, Bachelor HES-SO Fotografie, ECAL, Lausanne. 2017–2019 Master of Fine Arts, Piet Zwart Institute, Rotterdam, Holland. www.mathelinemarmy.com
Timo Paris (* 1994, Basel), lebt und arbeitet dort. 2016 – 2020 Bachelor of Fine Arts, Institut Kunst, fhnw, Basel. www.timo.paris
HYPOMOCHLION | MUSEUM LANGMATT
Hypomochlion – Engross, 2021
Sculptural sites specific installation
acrystal, jersey, steel, hatovit, silikon
250 × 80 × 190 cm, size variable
Hypomochlion – Grasp, 2021
Sculptural sites pecific installation
acrystal, jersey, steel, hatovit, silikon
310 × 120 × 110 cm, size variable
Hypomochlion – Threading, 2021
Sculptural sites specific installation
acrystal, jersey, steel, hatovit, silikon
240 × 65 × 80 , size variable
(Greek: hypomóchlion) stands for pivot point and is described in mechanics as a fixed point around which a solid body can rotate under the action of forces. If you look at a body….
SKURRILI | MUSEUM LANGMATT
Skurrili – 2021
sculptural installation, color print on paper, nylon, spotlights,
10×10×10 cm – 80×80×80 cm
Creatures persist in bizarre poses with acrobatic skills. Unclear whether captured or released from the body and unsure whether to persevere their state or develop further, these mystical creatures made the body their means of expression. Each creature seems to have developed …
