A
The Hand Refrains (2017) Installation view. Courtesy the artists + MAUVE, Vienna.
B
The Hand Refrains (2017) Installation view. Courtesy the artists + MAUVE, Vienna.
C
The Hand Refrains (2017) Installation view. Courtesy the artists + MAUVE, Vienna.
D
The Hand Refrains (2017) Installation view. Courtesy the artists + MAUVE, Vienna.
E
The Hand Refrains (2017) Installation view. Courtesy the artists + MAUVE, Vienna.
F
The Hand Refrains (2017) Installation view. Courtesy the artists + MAUVE, Vienna.
G
The Hand Refrains (2017) Installation view. Courtesy the artists + MAUVE, Vienna.
H
The Hand Refrains (2017) Installation view. Courtesy the artists + MAUVE, Vienna.
I
The Hand Refrains (2017) Installation view. Courtesy the artists + MAUVE, Vienna.
J
The Hand Refrains (2017) Installation view. Courtesy the artists + MAUVE, Vienna.

The artists avatar stares back at you in The Hand Refrains at MAUVE

, 25 September 2017

The The Hand Refrains group exhibition at Vienna’s MAUVE opened September 8 and is running to October 6.

The Hand Refrains (2017) Promo image. Courtesy MAUVE, Vienna.

The show “assesses the relationship between artists, their work and the viewer” and includes work by Stefan Fuchs, Carl MannovEvelyn Plaschg and Laura Yuile. The title is a play off of a William Morris poem about Pygmalion and Galatea. 

The installation brings together a number of materials across painting, lacquer, watercolour on cotton, peppermint, soap and other appropriated objects to explore the concept of figuration. Through animism,  and anthropomorphism, everything in the room becomes alive as a figure by “assuming the position of the artist’s avatar or that of a creature looking back at you.”

The The Hand Refrains group exhibition at Vienna’s MAUVE opened September 8 and is running to October 6.