Andrea Winkler

Set pieces of an increasingly unstable everyday world

Crime scenes are cordoned off by the police, safety devices block accident scenes, barrier consoles guide visitors through museums - all devices that are usually intended to prevent us from approaching things, places or valuable goods. Andrea Winkler stages alienated reappearances of these order and security-suggesting set pieces in an increasingly unstable everyday world. She transforms these barriers very precisely into three-dimensional, complex and accessible collages, which always transform the surrounding architecture and the rest of the exhibition situation into a precarious and questionable scenario. She also places seemingly marginal objects next to the barriers that interact with the space and its forces, triggering strong emotions and evoking deviations from the everyday world. The fact that the constellations of motifs themselves represent deviations from the norm or accidents, respectively, intensifies the artist's strategy. Andrea Winkler constructs a "double-bind": on the one hand, the situations appear as a mere image or mimetic model of reality, which as art is devoid of any real function; on the other hand, the works refer to a real aesthetic system that forms a place with real social regulations. Through the texts and the intensive and sometimes humorous dialogue with the artist, this book sheds light on her aesthetically disturbing work, which is unsettling in its chaos.

Exhibition:
Gallery in the Tower, Berlin, 17/3 - 30/4/2017