Eva Schlegel: Exploring Perception and Architecture through Installation Art at Secession

This exhibition showcases Eva Schlegel's work, which blends photography, objects, and installations to explore the interplay between perception and the object. Her site-specific installation for the Secession uses lead cladding and large floor mirrors to reinterpret the architecture and question visual perception.

Eva Schlegel's exhibition delves into the complex relationship between perception and the object, exploring how meaning is formed through association, association, and the exploration of hidden and revealed elements. Her work investigates desire and legibility through visual structures. For her exhibition at the Secession, Schlegel developed a site-specific installation that reinterprets the architecture of the main exhibition space. Central to this installation are the walls clad in lead and large mirrored surfaces mounted on the floor. The lead creates a hermetic seal, while the reflections in the mirrors invert the perception of up and down, emphasizing the room's vertical axis. The lead itself is employed for its expressive qualities, its seductive sheen, and its rich metaphorical associations with weight, time, and melancholy. Schlegel contrasts the isolating properties of the lead with the bright lightness of the mirrored surfaces and the glass ceiling. This installation builds upon Schlegel's previous works, particularly her exploration of light, transparency, and opacity. Her photographic works often feature a recurring motif of blurriness, exploring the threshold between recognition and fading, identifiability and anonymity. The installation's use of reflections and shadows similarly shifts the viewer's perception of their own presence within the space, drawing parallels to the blurred contours found in her photographs and directing attention to the very modes of seeing.

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