烟可以有多蓝？－瑞士女艺术家卡佳·洛尔在C空间的展览 ｜How Blue Can Smoke Be? －Katja Loher’s exhibition at C-Space

– Karen Garratt

洛尔的作品曾经在各国的个展和群展中呈现，其中包括： 圣保罗的巴西国家雕塑博物馆、罗马的MAXXI博物馆、上海世博会的联合国馆、日本横滨的亚洲区SIGGRAPH会展和莫斯科的Art Digital。在今年一月，她在爱荷华的Figge美术馆举办个展。她的作品也被很多私人和公立收藏机构收藏，其中包括：迈阿密的佩雷斯艺术博物馆、日内瓦瑞信、东京的eN和英国珀斯的Horsecross。

展览时间：

2013年11月16日至2014年1月5日

开幕式时间：11月16日从下午4点到6点

C空间

北京市朝阳区机场辅路草场地红一号院C1&C2座 邮编：100015 TEL: +86 10 51273248  FAX: +86 10 51273249www.c-spacebeijing.com info@c-spacebeijing.com 开放时间： 周二至周日 11:00 — 18:00

Katia Loher’s Miniverses are compelling video works in a quiet and elegant statement about humanity. These tiny microcosms are inventive, poetic, and mesmerising to watch. Loher operates akin to a theatrical producer, beginning with her concept and subsequently joining forces with a choreographer, costume designer, dancers, various video personnel and art fabricators. The idea is predicated on a concept of creating idealized artificial worlds that exist in harmony with our own allegedly unpleasant reality, hatching tiny ethereal havens that at first glance seem amusing and quirky, but revealing beautiful kaleidoscopic patterns constructed from dance formations, filmed from above to recall the complicity and harmony of synchronized swimmers.

The diminutive nature of Loher’s ultimate statement in visual form in its beautifully crafted glass bubbles, presents the viewer with a challenge to surpass mere ocular titillation, by engaging us in a private experience instead. Such an intimate experience nevertheless resonates globally, addressing ecological urgencies like the disappearance of the bee population. Collective effort can prevent ecological disaster but only if predicated by a sense of individual awareness and responsibility. Peering into the glass bubble is like having a conversation with oneself. Language weaves together the corporal through dance, the written word, and the enigmatic communication of the animal kingdom. Loher’s elfin performers mimic the somatic, sonar-type communication found in ant colonies, bee hives, or schools of fish, and further challenges mankind’s hubristic nature over animals by inspiring us to look for answers from another viewpoint.

– Karen Garratt

Katja Loher (b. 1979 Zurich, Switzerland) represents the next generation of video art with her fairytale stories which captivate and delight.

Loher’s work has been shown in solo and group exhibitions worldwide, including: MuBE, Museu Brasileiro da Escultura, São Paulo, Brazil; MAXXI Museum, Rome, Italy; United Nations Pavilion, Shanghai Expo, China; SIGGRAPH Asia, Yokohama, Japan and Art Digital, Moscow, Russia. In January 2014 she opens a solo exhibition at Figge Art Museum, Iowa, USA. Her work is featured in many private and public collections, among them: Credit Suisse Collection, Geneva, Switzerland; eN Arts Collection, Tokyo, Japan and Horsecross Collection, Perth, UK.

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