Academy
Tour for Students
Caroline Mesquita Verdet Bath
Leon Höllhumer The Feast
Duration: ca. 45 min
Group size: up to 15 persons
Also available in English
Admission to the exhibition is free. The guided tour is 1 Euro per person for students.
With Caroline Mesquita’s Verdet Bath and Leon Höllhumer’s The Feast, HALLE FÜR KUNST Steiermark opens two exhibitions by artists who not only work with sculpture and film, but who are also particularly interested in scenic storytelling.
In both exhibitions, individual works are placed in relation to each other to develop narratives which go beyond simple storytelling. Caroline Mesquita is less interested in depicting individuals than in portraying whole communities, and exploring how certain situations and experiences of social interaction are created through mutual exchange. While Mesquita uses the setting of a public swimming pool to transform her brass and copper figures into a theatrical tableau, Höllhumer has created a series of (video) installations that weave together an episodic sequence of stories. Juxtaposing morbid imagery with more pleasurable scenes, Höllhumer’s piece culminates in an immersive parcours installation, offering a complex and ambivalent narrative experience. Despite the two artists’ differences in content, production and tone, both exhibitions are highly immersive in design, and unexpectedly similar in their ability to captivate the viewer.