RHIZOME - IMAGES OF THOUGHT

In her colourful collages, pictures, prints, and sculptures, Nana Mandl(*1991 Graz, AT) develops possible visual transformations and translations of the challenges and the excessive demands of today's media. Her haptic collages combine elements of painting, embroidery and drawing with forms of the communicative and representative spheres of advertising, fashion and social media. Her multilayered works also reflect the globalized patchwork society in which we are living in today.

Nana Mandl, don't be so fucking nostalgic babe, 2016, Mixed Media on Canvas, 190 x 130 cm, 74 3/4 x 51 1/8 in

The American artist and filmmaker Jillian Mayer (*1986 Miami, US) explores how the digital world affect our lives, bodies and identities. She investigates the points of tension between our online and physical worlds and makes work that attempts to inhabit the increasingly porous boundary between the two.

The paintings of Tali Lennox (*1993 London, UK) are links and mediators between our real-life sphere and the spiritual one. Her impressive portraits draw parallels between German art of the 1920s and of the current 2020s. Lennox describes in particular the latter as a time of political and ecological decline, which captures the glittering escapism in a time of impending uncertainty. The people portrayed in Lennox's work are mostly strangers whom she meets on the streets of New York and then photographs in a staged fashion that matches their stories.

The sculptures by the artist Siggi Sekira (*1987 Odessa, UA) reinterpret Slavic mythology and investigate the coexistence of paganism and Christianity in rural, post- Soviet Ukraine. Pottery is exemplary of Ukrainian folk traditions and a form of cultural expression of the working class. With her sculptures, Sekira creates her own worlds alongside our present-day society and shows two works from the series „The Eve of Nymphs", which are based on the Slavic fertility ritual of Ivan Kupala.