The Trafo-Clique. Material Narratives

The Trafo-Clique. Material Narratives
(Materialerzählungen)

Martin Bischof, Ines Doujak, Beate Gatschelhofer, Julia Gryboś & Barbora Zentková, Lukas Hochrieder, Denisa Lehocká, Thea Moeller, Nilbar Güres

Raumintervention: Club Fortuna

13.09.2021 - 28.11.2021

Curator: Barbara Horvath

Nilbar Güreş's two works are exhibited as part of 'The Trafo-clique', curated by Barbara Horvath at Kunstverein Eisenstadt until November 28, 2021.

"Whether we think of the eagle gliding in flight, the apple blossom open, the draft horse laboring hard, the majestic swan, [...] the drifting clouds, or the sun shining over all: form always follows function."

In 1896 Louis H. Sullivan thus described the modernist dogma of the connection between the purpose of an object and its form. Things are completely shaped, not to say enslaved, by the functions attributed to them. They are externally determined, thoroughly organized. They serve people, and they usually take them for granted. In the exhibition, they now unfold a life of their own, transforming tensions into sensations, freed from their tiresome function. And often they just hang around, ready for metamorphosis.

A conspiratorial informal group, a prima clique of organic and inorganic exhibits, which - be it through spatial arrangements, material relationships or aspects of content - are related to each other aspects - are related to each other, express their discomfort against any form born of function.