Bøger af Stefanie Gschwend

Monographic catalogue by Caroline Achaintre (born 1969) on the occasion of the exhibition "Caroline Achaintre. Shiftings" at the Kunstmuseum Ravensburg (20 November 2021 to 20 February 2022) and at the Kunsthaus Pasquart in Biel (10 April to 12 June 2022). "Shiftings" is Anchaintre's first museum exhibition in Germany and Switzerland. The catalogue and exhibition give insight into the memorable work of the German-French artist, which is characterized by its precision, experimentation and unconventionality. Anchaintre's ceramics, watercolours and imposing, large-scale tapestries are invitations for the viewers' imaginations to run free. The title "Shiftings" not only alludes to the fact that Anchaintre transfers traditionally established techniques such as tapestry or ceramics to the present day but also to her constant sounding out of the boundaries between abstraction and representation.

Stéphanie Saadé (*1983, Lebanon) deals in her work with themes such as memory and the individual experience of time, scale and references to place. She subtly influences existing objects with quiet artistic interventions and places them in a loose network of references. They function as personal objets trouvés that do not speak language but think it. The artist explores the nature of memory, historicity or the condition humaine, using transposition, displacement and metaphor to explore the relationship between the intimate and the universal.The monographic publication appears on the occasion of the exhibition Stéphanie Saadé - Building a Home with Time. With sculptures, fabric works, videos, works in glass or with a video game, the artist develops different narratives around the theme of home. Building a Home with Time speaks to the slow process of forming a place, and at the same time the evolution and constitution of being, both of which are tied to each other and inseparable from the passage of time. Often her works place her personal life in scale with a part of completed history, but are also expanded by current events - such as the recent popular uprising, the devaluation of the Lebanese pound, hyperinflation, a global pandemic and a deadly explosion - which link the past and the present.