Yvon Chabrowski
In the organizer's words:
The video sculptures by artist Yvon Chabrowski invite us to engage with physical representations. Chabrowski creates performative spaces for negotiation in which the patterns of movement that are inscribed in the body, the roles that we take on in society and the relationships that we can enter into with one another are questioned and set in motion. In her works, the artist reflects on body images.
For her exhibition body options. we are airborne. at the Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz, Yvon Chabrowski expands her expansive video sculpture WE HAVE A BODY (2019/2024) with visual elements that shift the immediate experience of physical poses. Floating, life-size projections by the five performers Martina Garbelli, Renen Itzhaki, Nasheeka Nedsreal, Jan Rozman and Kareth Schaffer invite viewers to enter a performative negotiation space and decide for themselves: Will I become part of this group constellation? Which movement patterns do I recognize?
In the second exhibition space, three recent video sculptures with monitors are shown, which primarily question one's own position in global capitalism, which is geared towards competition and rivalry. In KINESIS | GLITCH, the artist herself can be seen wrapping her body in painterly-looking kinesiology tape, which actually promises healing and freedom of movement. The screen surfaces of the monitors show fractures and its color shifts flicker. GLITCHED FILTERS | FLUID MASKS addresses the issue of face filters that are often automatically placed over faces in social media applications, thus fragmenting and changing the body. Haven't digital face filters long since become part of our
body image?
In GLITCH SURFACES | MAPPING RESOURCES, the breaking up of the screen surfaces themselves becomes a processual image in which macro- and microscopic image references shift in the viewer's gaze.
in the viewer's gaze: Am I seeing constellations, a river delta, micrographs of a cell nucleus, or is it really a screen that is being broken down into its individual parts by the artist? And how can it be recycled to enable resource-conserving and fair production chains?
Yvon Chabrowski, born in East Berlin, studied photography with Timm Rautert and Florian Ebner at the Academy of Visual Arts Leipzig and at the École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts de Lyon. She is a graduate of Peter Piller's master class. She is currently working on her PhD project MY AVATAR AND I. In 2019, the artist won the International Marianne Brandt Competition, Chemnitz.
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