SITE-SPECIFIC INSTALLATION
The Melody of Clean, 2024
This space-specific work deals with how cleanliness and hygiene are represented visually and linguistically by the mass-market, and spatialized in built interiors. “The Melody of Clean” responds to the almost sacral architecture of the exhibition space, and its “potential for cleanliness“ and extends across the room – covering three dusty round arches in an attempt to prevent dust from falling and polluting this space made public through the exhibition event. The white tarpaulin material imitates a modern architectural hegemony of tidiness, of minimalist interior design that successfully hides clutter or irregularities, spaces that do not collect dust or dirt and can be wiped effortlessly.
The Melody of Clean (2024)
Tarpaulin, lacquer, window color, glue, metal (3 pieces)
250x100x60 each
Exhibited June 2024 at All Surfaces clean at all Times,
in the frame of Klimabiennale Vienna
Curated by Carmen Lael Hines
as well as Clara Grillmayr and Stefan Perez, hosted by Never at Home
Exhibition Text:
All surfaces clean at all times is an interdisciplinary exhibition exploring the moral and political assumptions attached to hygiene, cleanliness and sterility as communicated through architecture and design.
All surfaces clean at all times engages the exhibition format to reflect upon the architecture of the basement in a currently vacant building in Vienna’s 16th district, to consider how spaces are “imagined” through design. Through the exhibition as interface, the site-sensitive works experiment with binary assumptions or clean/dirty.
With works by:
The Institute for Postnatural Studies @instituteforpostnaturalstudies
Maximilian Seegert @maximilian_seegert
Janina Weißengruber @jan.w.e.i
The Dusts Institute @dusts.institute
Diskursiv @diskursiv.xyz
Thomas Waidhofer @ydvie
studio z00 @piosophie @katharinasauermann
Michael Stark @michael___stark
