Das Bild der Welt ist ein anderes
2025
2025
oT (Desiccation I+II) | 2025 | plastercast (plaster, salt)
Installation view at Galerie3, Vienna | 2025
column defect I-V | 2025 | plastercast (plaster, salt) | 40x30x1 cm each
As Yet Untitled (Remnants) | drywall elements with plastercasts | 4 x 4 m | installation view at Galerie3, VIenna | 2025
Dropout II | 2025 | plastercast (plaster, salt) | 93x69x1,5 cm
Fotos (c) eSeLat/JoannaPianka
Sophie Dvořák's works explore the technical view from above, which is only seemingly objective and omniscient, but lacks any temporal or spatial grounding. When is an image "true"? When I recognize what is depicted, when I know what the image shows? Rather, recognition is based on misrecognition. In relation to our understanding of the world, this means that only in this way does its contingent appearance take on form. Thus, satellite recordings are, strictly speaking, not images; they are more like a fabric without closure, without a fixed shape. They contain everything recorded within themselves, without analysis, without evaluation. As successors to maps [3], they exist for themselves, without beginning and without end, neither temporally nor spatially. Sophie Dvořák's works allow fragments to solidify from this fluid texture. The image of the world is ever-changing.
(Ines Gebetsroither)