KRISTINA MATOUSCH
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TOOLS
Elastic Gallery, Malmö, 2010

The exhibition entitled Tools consists of newly produced work in which material, form and content refer to the body, sex and violence although with a humouros subtext. In the exhibition Matousch explores our collective fantasies and conceptions of the relation between subject and object by way of traditional sculptural materials such as marble and steel. Matousch employes holes as a way of showing their relation to desire in both the sexual and commercial sense. In Matouschs art the holes in the objects are the carriers of meaning. Photo: Terje Östling


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Spegelvända hålrum
Kalmar konstmuseum, Kalmar Domkyrka, Klädaffären Kompaniet, 2010

A sculpture inspired by the confession-stand and the dressing-room. Both are small public spaces that deals with the human beeing as a person. Between the two rooms there´s a mirror with holes where the visitors can communicate. The confession-stand brings up questions about your inner life while the dressing-room deals with your shell, the surface. The project is supported by Konstnärnämnden.

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IN I
Galleri Thomas Wallner, Malmö, 2008

"The same effect is reinforced by a work dealing with enclosure. Shutter renders the holes in a net from a goal (the big ones used for football, i.e. soccer) as black surfaces (like a hat over the lens of a camera) that put an end to the gaze at the same time as this huge work – in a scale of 1:1, just as so many other things in this exhibition – threatens to fall across your body and entangle it. An intimacy between the gaze and the body is created; Matousch pulls them into a common zone."
Read text by Lars-Erik Hjertström Lappalainen


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Punched stainless steel, oil paint

Painting in combination with holes. Inspired by display systems, make-up and skin.


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System 1-15 / Subject inside Object
Galleri Mors Mössa, Göteborg 2006

System is based on a pre-fabricated wall system. The purpose of this kind of wall-system is to provide space for merchandise.With each sheet the wideness of the holes increase. My performance pieces often involve me in relation to other objects. In my piece Subject inside Object I stood inside a cardboard tube with my thumb sticking out through a hole.

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Volume 1-18 / Mass
Oil paint behind plexiglass / Punched steel, enamel

Volume 1-18 are paintings of packaging that has been flattened out. Originally the boxes contained a camera, beer, nails, band-aid, a gas mask, pastry etc. Quantity consists of attachment holes and holes of a wall system in a metal sheet. Photo: Susanna Hesselberg

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Shop / Waste Product / Shopping baskets / Faces
Punched aluminium

The artwork Shop is a sculpture of a store. Waste Product is made by the remaining material from the Shop. Without the holes in the shutter, no shutter, without the holes in the remaining material, no product. Photo: Catrin Andesson


Read text, Holes and consumption by Lars-Erik Hjertström


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Glance 1-5
Oil on aluminium

The paintings are based on photographs of closed stores. The aluminium is spared out to create a shutter.

Photo: Susanna Hesselberg

Read text by Mats B


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Interference
Drilled holes

The first time I used holes was in one of the pavilions of the Alma Löv Museum. I drilled right through the wooden walls and floor of the pavilion. I experienced at that moment the power of the holes.


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Passage
Plexiglass and stainless steel cut by laser

Passage shows an account of the ten openings of the female body, the holes in a grater, the holes in a liner and the holes in a shopping basket. 


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action trans action
Installation, MDF, oil paint, plexiglass, lacquer

The gallery as a commercial business inspired me. The exhibition consisted of paintings of credit cards and a sculpture of a cashbox. The visitors of the gallery actually moved in the bill and coin boxes.
Photo: John Håkansson 

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Latticework
Installation with toilet paper in four windows

The holes of the toilet paper rolls and the spaces in between them are every bit as central as the toilet paper. Together they create patterns that filter the light. The theme of the exhibition was food – the only food in the room was that within the bodies of the visitors.


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Take it in your hand
Installation and performance

I sold foodstuff items over the counter – such as bananas, pork chops, and butter devoid of packaging or peel.


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Me and yours
Ice Cream

The Ice Cream was shaped like excrements. If you eat an apple it doesn’t come out in the form of an apple. 90% of the men choose Magnus and 90% of the women choose Doris. The dark one tasted dark chocolate and the lighter version chocolate and honey.


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