Karen Amanda Moser (*1988, lives and works in Bern)
Still Life, 2020
Screen shots, fine art print, framed, each 40 x 50 cm
Partly Yours, 2020
MDF, gouache, hinges, each 178 x 49 x 1.6 cm
And quite frankly, one would kiss a Rothko if they could, 2019
Plaster, aluminium tubes, foam rubber, each approx. 40 x Ø 20 cm
In Still Life, Karen Amanda Moser uses screenshots of photographs that can be seen on the websites of real estate agencies to advertise residential properties. To make the images more representative, fruit bowls are often added to the rooms. The artist frames and enlarges the photographs, bringing the arrangements into focus as still lifes and thus giving them a pictorial quality. This attempt fails, however, and the image instead refers to the absurd staging of these empty, sterile flats. Partly Yours is a screen whose three parts each have rectangular recesses of different sizes. The screens function as frames through which individuals can be viewed from different angles. With this installation, the artist initiates an open discussion about digital devices that (as in video conferences) fragment, format and dematerialise bodies in a certain way. The modular work And quite frankly, one would kiss a Rothko if they could recreates barriers used in museums and explores the relationship they create between art and viewer. The title comes from a comment in an online article about an incident in which a woman allegedly kissed a photograph of Andy Warhol.
Karen Amanda Moser is participating in the initiative «artist takeover» of our Instagram-Account:
#artisttakeover on 6.2.2021
