Imitationen von dir wiederholen sich in mir / Imitations of You Repeat within Me*
20.11.–11.12.2021

The exhibition project IMITATIONEN VON DIR WIEDERHOLEN SICH IN MIR* is organized by Sarah Hugentobler

*Tocotronic

Artists
Kyra Tabea Balderer, Zürich
Sarah Hugentobler, Bern
Olga Titus, Winterthur

The title of the exhibition already contains two terms that form an intersection of the three artists individual methods. All three artistic positions engage with the repetitive, the staging and the multi-layeredness, the fusion of the real and the imagination and the alienation of reality, in their own ways.

In her work, Kyra Tabea Balderer fundamentally deals with perception, and takes up questions about visual perspectives according to historically and culturally determined factors. She draws on a wide range of visual languages and tries to link different concepts and narratives from the past with current perspectives. Photography thereto serves as a central means and medium. In addition to the subject, the pictoriality of photography and the residual quantities, displacements and symbolisms that arise in the process of photographic transfer are pivotal questions.

Sarah Hugentobler blends archive material into her work by letting her video characters – played by herself – speak with voices taken from archived sources. Furthermore, she experiments with found objects, which she multiplies a hundredfold and slightly animates, mixing analog and digital. In her new works exhibited at Haus zur Glocke, one gets an insight into a research laboratory. The researchers study and work on abstract forms and relay their findings.

Olga Titus generates new contexts and content through subjectively shaped narrative strands in new orders. Her videos, constructed from countless, dense levels, have a certain degree of staging, imitation, and their fusion; they are a constant balancing act between reality and fiction. At Haus zur Glocke, Olga Titus presents, among other things, a video projected on the gabled beams of the attic, which blends into the spaces between the woodwork as a repetitive pattern.