Variations on Subject and Object

The exhibition “Variations on Subject and Object” presents recent works by Bettina Pousttchi and Clare Woods. For several years, Pousttchi has incorporated objects into her sculptures that structure the physical experience of urban space. By bending, pressing, and altering their color, she relieves these everyday objects of their regulatory function and detaches them from their original context of meaning. They become signs of change, fluidity, and dissolving boundaries. With her serial use of the source material, the artist conceptually draws on Minimal Art as well as to Marcel Duchamp’s readymades. Through her intervention in form, she creates a variation of a prefabricated element into a new, autonomous object.