Salon Real / Virtual #12 | Evelyn Loschy & Laura Fitzgerald

Laura Fitzgerald Evelyn Loschy

12# SALON
EVELYN LOSCHY & LAURA FITZGERALD
Tickling a sensible space
from the exhibition series SALON REAL / VIRTUAL

22.1.2022 – 27.03.2022
OPENING: Saturday, 22.01., 16 – 20 H
silent opening

MIDI-VERNISSAGE Saturday, 26.2., 16 – 22 H
The artistst are present.

FIRESIDE CHAT: Saturday, 26.02, 18 – 19 H
Helen Carey (Fire Station Artists‘ Studios) in conversation with Evelyn Loschy and Laura Fitzgerald

WHERE: galerie michaela stock, Schleifmühlgasse 18, 1040 Vienna

Tickling a sensible space
The issue of identity is often a sensible space.
Identity is the way we perceive and express ourselves as individuals, as a society, or as a nation. Space whether, real, virtual or imagined, is crucial in constructing new enviroments for artistic communties, allowing them to explore and promote new values in society. Opening this space through the production of artworks, allows questions to be asked of stereotypes, conventions, gender issues, sexuality, race, nationality and heritage.

The exhibition titled “Tickling a sensible space” presents two young female artists. Evelyn Loschy from Austria and Laura Fitzgerald from Ireland. Both artists have different backgrounds, education and working conditions, but explore the same topic: identity and it’s representation in socio-cultural spaces. This investigation, into the shifting ecology of identity, allows the artists to propose alternative questions to where our place is within contemporary culture.

Laura Fitzgerald searches for her identity through the family farm in County Kerry, Ireland. Highlighting comparisons between rural identities and the work of an artist. She probes in a satirical way, the difficult task of being an artist through drawings, videos and sculpural-virtual sound installation.

Evelyn Loschy prompts the viewer to question at what point the self becomes other. New works such as a kinetic sculpture, a performance / video and an animated 3D sculpture, built especially for the virtual exhibition space, work with identity and thematically intersect to sharpen one’s view of the complex processes of the human being . They appear to lose their original form and confront the visitor with the view on behaviour of human beings and the visualisation of the innerself.

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Laura Fitzgerald

Laura Fitzgerald is an emerging visual artist from a small mountain farm in Co. Kerry, working across drawing, painting, text & video. Her work centres around ideas of place, ancestral memory, narrative structures and ownership. Laura Fitzgerald’s work is trying to be useful. And while she is worried that making art is – in fact – useless, she seeks solace in the notion it can be so radically useless that it can resist the profit-driven impetus of modern life. In a sense the work is sincerely absurdist in its own endeavours.

Evelyn Loschy

Loschy works with a large variety of materials and methods, reaching from video, photography, land art and location-specific interventions to kinetic, (auto-)destructive sculptures which have become the focus of her work over the last years.