Felix
Solo exhibition “at the waterhole” by Felix-Benedikt Sturm
2018
“At the waterhole” might grow some grass. Grass reduces deterioration of your shoe, if it is of sufficient, at least premium+ quality. This exhibition offers a series of installations and many white balls – usually flying like cannon balls, dropping wealth and prosperity everywhere they fall. They need huge space to increase profitability efficiently. This profitability is slowly pouring, trickling down to all of us – like water to the ground, from where the lawn grows to again cushion the shoes. Carefully trimmed, the lawn makes the shots more accurate. There are golf courses in the desert, as well as in the periphery. The golf interjection ‘Fore!’ might be a hint of what is going on.
One cannot deny the ever-present influence of political and economical issues in Felix-Benedikt Sturm’s artistic work. Since his graduation from University of Arts Linz from Sculpture – Transmedial Space Department in 2015, he has been trying to explore various questions concerning arts and politics, arts in politics, politics in arts and every other combination possible. As Séamus Kealy stated about his recent exhibition at Salzburger Kunstverein: “Felix-Benedikt Sturm is interested in political and social systems of order, from forms of categorization by empirical or administrative means, bureaucratization of human processes, to overall political structures housed within states. He is also concerned with the complications and contradictions of how artists confront political topics.”
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Opening photos (c) eSeL.at