Fragments proposés

Curated by Katja Stecher

Art can be a game of chance, and chance is what epitomizes the tenets of the Cadavre Exquis. As developed by André Breton and the Surrealists, the collaborative drawing game gives space to unpremeditated creations of text and images. There is no plan, and only action leads to an outcome. This linchpin to the idea of process is manifested within the group exhibition Fragments proposés at Kunstverein Baden. Uniting the artists Miriam Hamann, Constanze Schweiger and Javiera Tejerina-Risso, the works in this exhibition approach this principle through the use and reinterpretation of fragments from their previous iterations. One work might reappear, and be continued in another. A piece of cotton fabric––its material, folded and naturally dyed, dried and subsequently installed on a building facade––may, for example, be reused for a future body of work.

Each artist conspires with or might find common cause with aspects from where its surrounding left off. At the core is a relation to time and process; the fragments of Hamann, Schweiger, and Tejerina become whole through singular investigations of abstract concepts. The results of these self-referential processes, attuned to the principles of nature and science, are works that are quiet, contemplative, and yet transformative.