Not Quite Solid, Still Decomposing
In their joint exhibition at Kunstverein Baden, Bianca Phos and Marit Wolters explore the processes of transformation, focusing specifically on what happens when materials are set in motion and react, combine, separate, solidify or dissolve. Although the two artists approach their work differently, their lines of inquiry intersect.
In Not Quite Solid, Still Decomposing, Phos and Wolters present a selection of works that highlight the similarities and differences between their respective fields, initiating a dialogue between their distinct artistic approaches. Both sculptors work with sand, a material that has long been a link between nature and architecture, and between organic processes and cultural coding.
Translation: Katja Stecher
Her artistic practice unfolds between installation, sculpture, and drawing. In her work, embodiment is understood as inseparable from the material, technological, and social relations that shape perception, experience, and action. She often develops her works in dialogue with industrial materials, attending to their properties and transformations as well as to the knowledge, norms, and social expectations inscribed through their production and use. Yet the particular qualities of matter can, in turn, unsettle or subvert these inscriptions.
is a German visual artist based in Vienna. Her works examine the aesthetic potential of architectural materials, processes and structures and their interaction with social and ecological systems. The cycles of work feed thematically from Wolters' immediate environment. She picks up structures and materials of the architectural or landscape environment in order to translate their characteristics into her own pictorial language. Thus, the resulting works have a strong conceptual connection to their surrounding space. Research and experimentation are main catalysts in her work process. In this way, she creates works that are rich in layers, dealing with themes of architecture and urban planning, ecology and local landscape formation processes.