CONCEPT

With my installations and objects I have the intension to touch the spectator on an emotional level. The poetically encoded themes of the work hint meta-physical questions and mythological images: man’s struggle for orientation in this world.

The material I preferably use is the fibre of hemp, which is interesting because of its flexibility, hairy structure, and natural tendency towards chaos. By different work procedures such as colouring, drying, compressing or combining it with gelatine, wax or different polymeric substances, I can harden or soften the material partially, which makes it possible to work with bold contrasts. The very evocative quality of the fibre helps me to create metaphors for elementary human mental or instinctive feelings such as joy, fear, aggression, silence, loneliness, loss etc.

Ute Vauk-Ogawa