Artist Talk anlässlich der Ausstellung "Die Zelle als Versprechen"

In the organizer's words:

On the occasion of the exhibition "The Cell as a Promise", Baustelle Schaustelle invites you to an artist talk with the artist Isabella Wagner and Anastasia Glaser.

Isabella Wagner comes from the Ruhr area and still lives there today. She completed a bachelor's degree in sociology at the University of Duisburg-Essen. She then went on to study art and social sciences there and is now about to complete her Master's degree.

Isabella Wagner's artistic work is about the interweaving of her two disciplines, the sociological perspective and artistic practice. She examines material behavior, structural dissolution and body-space relationships, particularly in printmaking and large-scale installations.

In her work The Cell as a Promise, the artist negotiates the home as a socially coded retreat. The work addresses the ambivalence of a place that promises security and control, but at the same time refers to social exclusions, ownership structures and standardized life plans.

The installation creates a situation in which image, material and movement overlap. Projections of typified detached houses meet a fragile spatial structure through which recipients move. The body never stands outside the work, but becomes part of it, partly visible, partly permeable.

In the tension between architectural order and affective irritation, retreat is not experienced as an individual need, but as a socially regulated possibility. The work does not offer a resolution, but makes it possible to experience how deeply power relations are inscribed in spaces, desires and perception.