A Structure Charim Gallery, Vienna
A Structure
Charim Gallery, Vienna
January–March 2024
A Structure (2023), painted steel, 6 rods
We and The Garden (2023), sunlight on paper
B21 (Director´s Office) (2023), 16mm, color, sound, 7min
Installation views:
Flavio Palasciano
Charim GalleryWith the exhibition A Structure at Charim Galerie in Vienna, Dorit Margreiter Choy interrelated three of her current projects that pose questions about the production of imaginary space: an installation at the Plečnik House (PH) in Ljubljana, Slovenia (2023); a film on the Bata headquarters in Zlín, Czech Republic (2023); and an artistic intervention at the Mahler Forum for Music and Society in Carinthia, Austria (2022). The exhibition opened with a painted vertical rod, followed by a collage of white stripes over a photograph of the woods. These two visual gestures were an introduction to the exhibition spaces, where colored scaffolding bars and framed sheets of blue-gradient paper created a sense of dynamism. The exhibition ended with a film that restarted each time a visitor would enter the last space of the gallery, and which was projected onto a floating canvas in the middle of the last room.
The feeling of a construction site that Margreiter Choy evoked in the gallery through her use of scaffolding bars reconfigured the gallery’s potential neutrality not merely as an exhibition space but also as a material object. Arranging the exhibition site by combining three of her projects, each enacting a particular meaning related to the place of its production, Margreiter Choy distanced her artworks from their original settings and allowed them to work against each other. This opened doors for new visual, spatial, and imaginary relationships to take place. […]
Text by Nika Grabar
excerpt from Restructuring Imaginary Space, Texte zur Kunst, May 2024
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