Archive: Judith Fegerl: Self
Following Kerstin Cmelka and Michael Höpfner, the exhibition SELF by Judith Fegerl is the third individual presentation by a Lower Austrian artist in the Kunstraum Niederoesterreich. Judith Fegerl (*1977) has conceived an expansive installation that consistently continues her recent work treating the factors of space and architecture even more explicitly.
She intentionally liberates the neutral exhibition room in the sense of a white cube from all fittings. Covered windows are exposed, partition walls are torn down and lighting tracks disconnected. Interfaces of the subcutaneous infrastructure of the exhibition hall, such as data and electricity connections, are revealed. The electric cables are bare. Fegerl combines all the internal routes for audio, video and internet into a closed system and thereby as it were forces all substantial content processing in them into an invisible circulation.
Fegerl shows the art room as an architectural and energy-providing shell for art objects – like her human-machine units – as a body without organs. SELF is thus a conceptual basis and precondition for all her previous works. For the audience, the room, exhibited with unusual radicalism, becomes a place of encounter with the artist Judith Fegerl and simultaneously a place of confrontation with ingrained habits of seeing.
Curated by: Verena Kaspar-Eisert
