Spacedust 2017

Spacedust 2017 (WV C 018, WV A 128)
Museum für Neue Kunst, Freiburg 2019 | In situ installation | "Natural" roomdust from immediate exhibition space, swept together, optical laser | Diameter red circular field: ca.10 cm. Collection of Museum of Contemporary Art, Freiburg

Jochen Kitzbihler's work repeatedly revolves around the materiality and structure of geological finds. Thus stones and erratic blocks, for him readable earth history, are at the center of his sculptural thinking. The installation Raumstaub illustrates this interest, although the materials - light and dust - are ephemeral. In the fissured surface of the accumulated miniature dust mountain, trenches and canyons open up in its angled texture. Dust, as an omnipresent often annoying and unwanted material that is usually paid little attention to, is given a very special meaning here: the laser that illuminates the cone from above transcends the mundane material of dust into an energetically charged body whose boundaries seem to blur in space. Even when looking very closely, the viewer hardly knows which material is involved - the light-dust structure repeatedly eludes fixation.