Detail / Exhibitionview Museum der bildenden Kuenste Leipzig / First Contact / 2018 / Photo © Jakob Adolphi
First Contact is a spatial installation that explores the connection between object collages and their architectural surroundings. The objects within the installation, mostly vessel-like collages of clay, porcelain, glass and discarded objects, provide a sculptural interpretation of a historially familiar repertoire of forms.The examination of materiality and its aesthetics features largely in the work First Contact. There are allusions to stylistic epochs, which attract and repel each other, allowing an emotional study of form and colour to emerge in the present setting, with the vessel becoming a symbolic carrier of thoughts and ideas.
Text by Sarah Pschorn and Marcus Andrew Hurttig (Curator, Museum der bildenden Kuenste Leipzig) for the catalog Connect#1, 2020
Exhibitionview Museum der bildenden Kuenste Leipzig / First Contact / 2018 / Photo © Jakob Adolphi
Exhibitionview Museum der bildenden Kuenste Leipzig /First Contact I, Subtitle: Sentimental 4ever / 2017 / porcelain, glaze, lustre, glass bricks, fabric, light strips / 240x120x160 cm / Photo © Jakob Adolphi
Exhibiton setup / Museum der bildenden Kuenste Leipzig / 2018 / Video © Sarah Pschorn
Exhibitionview Museum der bildenden Kuenste Leipzig / RAW / 2018 / porcelain, wood, light strips / 90x120x140 cm / Photo © Jakob Adolphi
The pieces of the installation emerged from the atmosphere and vivacity of the space in which they were created, an abandoned factory room in the west of Leipzig. They carry like DNA the aesthetic and formal characteristics of the place from which they originated, transporting this genetic information into the exhibition space. For her solo exhibition in the Zuendkerzenhalle at the Museum of Fine Arts, Sarah Pschorn expanded the installation by adding two more works: Pushing each other further und RAW.
Text by Sarah Pschorn and Marcus Andrew Hurttig (Curator, Museum der bildenden Kuenste Leipzig) for the catalog Connect#1, 2020
Exhibitionview Museum der bildenden Kuenste Leipzig / First Contact / 2018 / Photo © Jakob Adolphi
Studioview / 2018 / Video © Sarah Pschorn
Exhibitionview Museum der bildenden Kuenste Leipzig / First Contact / 2018 / left / First Contact V / 2018 / porcelain, platinium, found object glass, epoxy resin, plywood, crayon / 140x80x30 cm / right / Pushing Each Other Further / 2018 / clay, glaze, wood, acrylic / 180x130x30 cm / Photo © Jakob Adolphi
Work In Progress / 2018 / Photo © Sarah Pschorn
Installationview Studio / First Contact VI / 2017 / porcelain, gold, found object glass, epoxy / 42x30x30 cm / Photo © Jakob Adolphi
Installationview Studio / First Contact III / 2017 / clay, glaze, wood, found objects metall and plastic, gold, epoxy resin / each 88-117x21-40x30-40 cm / Photo © Jakob Adolphi
Installationview Studio / First Contact / 2017 / Photo © Jakob Adolphi
Installationview Studio / First Contact II / 2017 / glass bricks, porcelain, clay, glaze/ 180x80x12 cm and 85x18x18 cm / Photo © Jakob Adolphi
Exhibitionview Burg Galerie im Volkspark Halle (Saale) / First Contact I and IV / Photo © Jakob Adolphi
Exhibitionview Burg Galerie im Volkspark Halle (Saale) / First Contact IV / 2017 / Photo © Jakob Adolphi
Exhibitionview Burg Galerie im Volkspark Halle (Saale) / First Contact / 2017 / Photo © Jakob Adolphi
Exhibitionview Burg Galerie im Volkspark Halle (Saale) / First Contact V / 2017 / plywood, porcelain, clay, glaze, gold, platinium, lustre, found objects glass and plastic, epoxy resin / 140x80x30 cm / Photo © Jakob Adolphi
Exhibitionview Burg Galerie im Volkspark Halle (Saale) / First Contact III / 2017 / Photo © Jakob Adolphi
Studioview / 2018 / Photo © Sarah Pschorn