mountaincutters

CONTROL C Respiration [CTRL C breath] (Augarten)

2023,
In-situ installation (Augarten)

The two in-situ installations feature sculptures made of steel, glass, copper, brass, and assemblages of other diverse materials contaminating the exhibition space. As such, they are a direct continuation of their morphologies souterraines exhibition, recently shown at Palais de Tokyo in Paris. The intention is to build a sculptural situation that connects to the site like a body in transformation, with all its failures and transmissions/restrictions of energy flows. The installations thus evoke a porous system connecting architecture, physical anatomy, and traces of the living. mountaincutters refuse to inscribe their exhibitions in a particular narrative or staging, and each of their installations is only legible through fragments – from an unusable glass seat to a body support structure, from a reproduction of a prehistoric Venus to images of human anatomy taken from historical textbooks. An inquiry into the archaeology of forms, an ongoing questioning of the spatiality of bodies and their environments emerges from these unfinished and unsettled spatial haikus. In these assemblages, impermanence, incompletion, and imperfection are not marks of deficiency but rather the expression of a vital élan that takes shape beyond order, balance, and norms.

Not a Strategy but Uncertainty

2023,
In-situ installation (Laurenz)

In each tubes, you can read small french texts. Translations: — give them the collective sperm and the collective egg that aligns the body and the environment without ethics with some pollen gathered — bacteries and viruses are faceless agents — under the skin of reality they lay the history of maternities — a blind bag carries the non-gendered skin —- I am outside on a sidewalk I look at the memory of my cells and attempt to unfold each filament to read the archive the rhizomes of the massive internal information (…) (go back up) (go back up) (go back up) (go back up) (go back up) (…) to the pre-political state of the body — providing reduced worlds under the Magdalenian foot on a soil wide awake - deep down what the study of doubts becomes magical spatiality / Object Venus it must touch each other Identity.i.e.x.s

Incomplete object (Vienna)

2023,
Unique sculpture Ceramic, copper wire, glass