Margareta Sandhofer

Georgia Creimer

Georgia Creimer’s oeuvre ranges from drawing, painting, photography, film and sculpture to large-scale installations. The themes can be far-reaching, but they always lead back to an existential theme: human existence as a form of being in which mental states, physical and emotional sensitivity are one. Georgia Creimer reflects the complexity of human reality in symbolic and fictional metamorphoses.

Invited as an artist in residence, the artist bundled and condensed the main impressions from her first stay in China and transformed them into an immersive environment.

Bowls filled with black ink, with a vertical pipe suspended above each, whose hidden light source reflects like a moon in the depth of the dark liquid, are arranged throughout the room. An imaginary connection hovers ambiguously between the objects resting on the ground and the energy-giving construction above. The recurring form of the bowl, in which food and drinks are served in a generous manner, is a symbol of giving and sharing, intensified in the exhibition context by the constant need to refill the evaporating ink. The meditative state of the minimalist structure is unexpectedly irritated by isolated flashes of light. The atmospherically reflected moon in the bowl turns into a double flashlight. Associations with the technoid totality of the Chinese metropolis permeate the sensual mysticism of the black ink, highlighting the ambivalence. The silent scenario appears as a poetic transformation of an ambiguous form of existence in an inescapable reality.

(English translation: Camilla Nielsen)