Sophie Hirsch: "Child's Play"

The Austrian artist Sophie Hirsch (born in 1986) dissects the relationship between body and psyche in a subtle, aesthetically fascinating way. She casts this relationship in an exciting artistic language defined by the dynamic interplay of surfaces and material connections. Her sculptural works made of silicone and neoprene provoke a kind of sensual disgust: The gaze into motionless sticky fascia or fat-marbled flesh is beautifully repulsive, shockingly close, and irresistibly attractive at the same time. Hirsch’s furniture sculptures, such as chair objects with acupressure mats or massage balls, play with the haptic and tactile perception of the world. Sculptural and installation works exist in a fragile balance of weight and counterweight, tension and relaxation, control and surrender.

For Kunstraum Dornbirn’s historic assembly hall, Hirsch is developing a new site-specific installation of monumental proportions.

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