Maureen Kägi

I Doubt You Share My Sensitivity

February 21 – April 10 2016

Maureen Kaegi (b.1984, lives and works in Vienna and Winterthur) uses a wide range of painting and drawing media and examines their effect in minute detail: oil, pen, ballpoint pen and graphite are all part of her repertoire. Graphically, the images are composed through a process of reduced design and a repetition of individual picture elements, such as surfaces or lines which support and/or sometimes overlap, resulting in a unique figure-ground relationship. At the Kunsthalle Winterthur, this approach is extended to site-specific interventions, physically defining and visually structuring the space: A ramp in one corner, adhesive film applied from wall to floor, and a freestanding wall coated with bright color.
The opening of this installation will serve as a setting for three dancers – Malika Fankha, Karin Pauer and Dominique Richards, – whose performance elements produce fragments of everyday gestures and artificially mechanized movements. Parallel to the exhibition, a comprehensive catalogue with texts by Oliver Kielmayer, Elsy Lahner and Marie-Alice Schultz is being published by the Verlag für Moderne Kunst; it will be presented at the closing event together with a reading by Marie-Alice Schulz.

Joëlle Menzi