until Sunday May 26 2013
Mak - Austrian Museum of Applied Arts / Contemporary Art
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Stubenring 5
A - 1010 Wien
Austria
"city of broken furniture"- Kerstin von Gabain presents her reaction to the scholarly paradigm of museums’ collecting practice, using her sculptural and photographic works to conjure up an atmosphere that is deliberately reminiscent of a sanatorium.
Both her medical-seeming treatment of furniture and her 19th century-style photographic portraits of objects from the MAK’s collection of seating furniture humorously suggest these pieces’ supposed anthropomorphization. Von Gabain considers photography, as a tool of classification and of phenomenological study, to be a particularly interesting way of dealing with the archival paradigms evident in the museum’s Study Collection.
Curator Janina Falkner, MAK Contemporary Art Collection
