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'Lonely Daters' by Marie Matusz at Clima, Milan

Lonely Daters merges a group of sculptures and spatial interventions into an emotive environment, layering surfaces and potential readings of objects through their positioning in space. The refusal of a simple figuration, of object-equals-meaning, provides a different potential means of understanding, opening the sculptures to being scrutinised from their surfaces through to their cores, from experience and meaning to reference, thereby detangling the conjectured process of “signification”. 

We start from the ground. Covered with slate tiles, it is unsettled with every step. Balance, shingles slipping away from under your feet. Mats made of felted human hair evoke the sense of seeing clumps of one’s own hair in the shower drain. Hourglass-shaped hand blown glass sculptures reflect the room and the viewer, mirror and Vanitas. No sand runs through them – it is as if the auxiliary function of the installation is to make obvious how our sensual apparatus is now up and running, working correctly, continuously associating. The surfaces of the many objects hanging from the walls of the gallery have been treated, dealt with, scratched, and exposed to sunlight, invoking the brush as the agent of existence – I, you, something was here. 

If the glass vitrines now on display at “Fall” at Istituto Svizzero, Milano, are enclosing Marie Matusz’s sculptures thereby reducing their visibility, then this exhibition performs a reverse exercise. Here, surfaces are exposed, frame and framed switching places. The encased objects at Istituto Svizzero operate as potentials – an item of furniture, a stage, a tool. On the other hand, the works here show what might have been once there, and what has since gone missing – a potential ex-negativo, an emptied space. (I knew where you had left it until I went looking for it.) 

Performing this emptying out the experience of the exhibition might give way to a more affective layer of perception: as “meaning is”, according to Franco Bifo Beradi, “not a presence, but an experience” – ideally one shared, the outside looking in and the inside looking out, like walking in someone else’s shoes. 

— Ann-Kathrin Eickhoff 

22.9.22 — 15.11.22

Photo by Marco Davolio

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