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Christine
Spatt
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| Christine
Spatt At the bottom Vienna 2002 |
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Christine
Spatt is an artist working and living in Vienna. She concentrates her
work around the involvement into her closest environment, literally taking
imprints of it through photography, painting and even molding methods.
At the bottom is a collection of floor imprints in red hues made of latex. The single parts are flexible, variable, next to each other in different spaces, they overlap, fill the space available. In the dried and turned latex film structures of the floor material show up as negative imprints, the woodgrain of the parquetry floor, the design of the plastic covering, unevenness, grooves, cuts, gaps, sills. "As if excavating I approach the matter and according to the technique of casting I secure the outer form in fragments. Structures remain, the image of appearance is changed, no imitation of reality, just an imprint. According to these imprints I assess the space available to me, my actual personal conditions and parameters, familiar and different places. I question the role my identity and my personal conditions play, what kind of status it occupies in the exchange with my close and distant environment, with humans, cultures, and therefore I examine my position, from which I establish a dialogue and new conditions". |