ART-PRESENTATION: Temps Suspendu-Galerie Mitterrand,Paris

Since the 1990s, Katja Schenker has been developing a work that combines performance and sculpture, using drawing, photography and video to deepen and document the successive stages of her creative process. During her performances, the artist creates different physical actions which transform materials or objects.

By Efi Michalarou
Photo: Galerie Mitterrand Archive

The performances of Katja Schenker are complex processes which often originate in an emotional intention, then transcribed to a drawing, then staged, before culminating in sculptures which conserve the trace of the creative act, sometimes becoming even relic-like objects. In her solo exhibition of the Swiss artist at the Galerie Mitterrand, the sculpture Abschnitt, is composed of concrete and various natural materials is the result of a performance carried out in 2009. It creates a porous surface, evoking the importance of nature as a central object in Katja Schenker’s work, while the connecting link, are the photos and the videos, projected at the same time at the Gallery space. Forerunner and guidelines of her work and thinking, are the drawings that are accompanying the exhibition, completing the viewer’s impression for the work of the artist with strong social concerns.

Info: Temps Suspendu, Galerie Mitterrand, 79 rue du Temple, Paris, Duration: 29/5-1/8/15, Days & Hours: Tue-Sat: 11:00-19:00, http://galeriemitterrand.com