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The title of the exhibition Espèces d’Espace refers to a book by Georges Perec (1974) ‘Prière d’insérer’, Espèces d’espaces Species of Spaces, 1974, in which he states ‘L’espace de notre vie n’est ni continu, ni homogène, ni isotrope. Mais sait-on présisément où il se brise, où il se courbe, où il se déconnecte et où il se rassemble?… Le problème n’est pas d’inventer l’espace, encore moins de le réinventer (trop de gens bien intentionnés sont là aujourd’hui pour penser notre environneent…), mais de l’interroger, ou, plus simplement encore, de le [removed]#8217;
Stéphanie Baechler (° 1983, Meyriez, CH) lives and works in Amsterdam and Switzerland. She has exhibited at MAHF, Fribourg, Kunsthalle Fri Art Fribourg, Centre d’art Pasquart Biel in Switzerland, Arti et Amicitiae Amsterdam and Modemuseum Antwerp. Her work is in public and private collections, including HEAD-Genva, Museum für Gestaltung Zürich and MAHF Fribourg.
Baechler is interested in the interplay between craft and technology; the complex and often ambiguous relationship between handmade and machine-made results. Textile and clay are the main materials she uses in her sculptures and installations. Her work is characterized by a sensitive, intuitive and process-oriented approach to materials.
Charlotte Eta Mumm (°1980, DE) is exhibiting for the first time in our gallery. She lives and works in Amsterdam. Her works have been shown in Städtische Galerie Nordhorn (DE), Phoinix, Bratislava (SK), Museum Brot und Kunst Ulm (DE), Keramiekmuseum Princessehof, Leuwarden (DE), Arti et Amicitiae Amsterdam, Kunstenfestival Watou (BE), Sculpture Quadrennial, Riga (LV).
She works with a variety of materials and crosses the boundaries between painting, drawing, sculpture and situational settings. Her work moves between abstract and figurative, questioning the presence of things, inside/outside perspectives and the definition of space and surface. Conflicting perceptions and paradoxes are important aspects in her artistic [removed] question the certainty of images and concepts.
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