ARTYOU INSTALLATION – ST.POZ: A TALE OF TWO – ROOMS
Opening: Thursday, September 7th, 6 pm
Exhibition duration: September 7th - November 11th, 2023
Having an idea for the future is the first step to realize it. The vision of the duo St.Poz combines architectural elements with visual art. The focus is on urban interventions with unusual perspectives to open new narratives. Their intention is characterized by perceiving ordinary things from a different angle, thinking about things in a different way and making this visible and tangible. They work with an experimental force that draws from the past and the experienced and engages with sustainable and collective future perspectives to create speculative spatial situations.
Their sculptural works, sometimes condensed into complex installations and often walkable and playable, move between the thematic fields of experience, haptics, architecture, urban and landscape planning with references to aesthetic concepts from different cultures and eras and their (patriarchal) structures. The formal language and the different materials used in their works combine minimalist with surreal images from experiences of contemporary urban everyday life.
Their work explores possibilities and impossibilities from the realms of fiction and utopia in urbanized society, and they are interested in how much their architectural sculptures influence the spatial imagination of the viewer. In all these fantastic concepts, along with a particular conception of space, an ideological stance is not infrequently reflected.
For Artstübli, the collective St.Poz, consisting of Simone Steinegger and Alex Pipoz, builds a space-spanning installation. The scales and proportions are dissolved by architectural volumes to enable a new sense of space with drawings distorted in perspective. In her work, St.Poz explicitly seeks the connection of a direct physical contact with art. The relationship to space in their work is always intimately connected to the body and its relationship of construction, visual displacement, fictional potential and real limitation.
Through walkability, the newly created proportions are directly experienced and evoked narratives are interwoven with the space by the viewer through the directed gaze of the drawings.
Architectural elements of honeycomb cardboard and ceramics are spatially arranged in a way that dissolves and misrepresents scale in relation to the viewer. The volumes and spaces are distorted by superimposed perspective drawings. With real and false passages and window arches, walls and steps, the work takes on a narrative character.
One is virtually immersed in St.Poz's universe - through the routing, tension is created and a contrasting experience of the spaces of density and emptiness, of large and small, as well as symmetry operations can be experienced.
About St.Poz
Simone Steinegger is an artist working with an interdisciplinary approach in the extended fields of sculpture & performance and interested in art projects in public space.
www.simonesteinegger.com
Alex Pipoz has many years of experience as a construction and project manager and works part-time as an architect at Luca Selva Architects and independently as a tattoo artist.
Instagram: @pipoz_tattoo
Together they form the duo St.Poz and loosely initiate temporary art projects in private and public spaces, realize exhibitions and develop concepts by invitation, which reflect on the place for which they are designed. Their working methods can take very different forms: from walk-in spatial installations and designed objects, to architectural mock-ups, interactive games and drawn worlds, analog photographs and video works. The focus is on urban interventions with unusual perspectives in order to open up new narratives, creating experiences in which visitors and invited guests can integrate and interact.
Thank you for your support:
Christoph Merian Stiftung
Kulturpauschale Basel
Opening hours:
Thursday - Friday: 11 a.m. - 6 p.m.
Saturday: 14 - 18 h
ARTYOU by Artstübli
Steinentorberg 28
4051 Basel
Contact:
Tel. +41792879923