VIEW 5

Regula Dettwiler

(AT)

Sleeps a Song in Things Abounding, series A#5, B#6, B#8, B#9

2010-2012, Dimensions: Variable
Materials: Pressed plant matter on museum board

Dettwiler’s practice uses various artistic methods to develop strategies and representational forms of naturalized artificiality. Her rearrangements of natural history reveal our deep connections to, whilst simultaneously thinking ourselves outside, nature. The plant leaves in in this work are manipulated in such a way that they refer to a deep psychological dimension as "Rorschach pictures" and to show "nature" as the projection surface of human longings and fears.

Almut Rink

The Evening Gong

Board 5, 2016-2017

In response to Regula Dettwiler's series "Sleeps a song in Things Abounding" Rink puts her Board 5 in parts on the floor, mixing them with several art works of Dettwiler's pressed and framed plant collages. The board with it's traces of Regent’s Canal in London becomes a picture and the Dettwiler’s pictures become possible parts of the board – a tool for the approach of what is surrounding us.