Artist: Maya Hottarek
Exhibition title: Petri dish dream
Venue: A.ROMY, Zurich, Switzerland
Date: January 30 – March 31, 2021
Photography: all images copyright and courtesy of the artist and A.ROMY, Zurich
Connected but never welded, growing together
What should be disgusting is familiar
Sweet diminutive individual,
Praised, needed & malleable explosive
Is it The Touch of My Hand or the rotisserie itself portraying heavy hairy gates
To kinda ~ Hell ~
Random and important,
Sexy and not so frightening,
…in a planetary common field
Depends on your lense
Plugging an organ here and there
In a dangerous, thorny and shapeable soil
Inside you, around you, fucking you,
Where the detached observer is indeed a biosphere
Everytime We Touch,
There is no self interest in the
Inaccessible to view – that’s a lie.
Uptake there is. How twisted otherwise
Here, have a chair, and please,
Feel very welcome in our oxidized niche
Maya Hottarek, Lucid living, pencil on paper, glazed ceramic frame, 27x29x3cm (10.6×11.4×1.1 inches), 2021
Maya Hottarek, Petri dish dream, installation view, 2021, A.ROMY, Zurich
Maya Hottarek, Petri dish dream, installation view, 2021, A.ROMY, Zurich
Maya Hottarek, Petri dish dream, installation view, 2021, A.ROMY, Zurich
Maya Hottarek, Petri dish dream, installation view, 2021, A.ROMY, Zurich
Maya Hottarek, Drip drop drip drop trip, glazed ceramic, water pump, water, beeswax, 38x30x22cm (15×11.8×8.66 inches), 2021
Maya Hottarek, Drip drop drip drop trip, glazed ceramic, water pump, water, beeswax, 38x30x22cm (15×11.8×8.66 inches. 2021, (detail)
Maya Hottarek, Drip drop drip drop trip, glazed ceramic, water pump, water, beeswax, 38x30x22cm (15×11.8×8.66 inches. 2021, (detail)
Maya Hottarek, Thats hot, glazed ceramic, water, crystal, hematite. Synthetic fur, metal, chain, zinc casting, 33x38x16cm (13x15x6.3 inches) , 2021
Maya Hottarek, Thats hot, glazed ceramic, water, crystal, hematite. Synthetic fur, metal, chain, zinc casting, 33x38x16cm (13x15x6.3 inches), 2021 (detail)
Maya Hottarek, I hope it finds me well, glazed ceramic, beeswax, 34.5x27x6 cm (13x15x6.3 inches), 2021
Maya Hottarek, I hope it finds me well, glazed ceramic, beeswax, 34.5x27x6 cm (13x15x6.3 inches), 2021 (detail)
Maya Hottarek, Waiting on Aquarius, glazed ceramic, couch synthetic fur, Variable dimensions, 2021
Maya Hottarek, Waiting on Aquarius, glazed ceramic, couch synthetic fur, Variable dimensions, 2021
Maya Hottarek, Waiting on Aquarius, glazed ceramic, couch synthetic fur, Variable dimensions, 2021
Maya Hottarek, Waiting on Aquarius, glazed ceramic, couch synthetic fur, Variable dimensions, 2021
Maya Hottarek, Waiting on Aquarius, glazed ceramic, couch synthetic fur, Variable dimensions, 2021
Maya Hottarek, Waiting on Aquarius, glazed ceramic, couch synthetic fur, Variable dimensions, 2021
Maya Hottarek, Free alraune, pencil on paper, glazed ceramic, 24x15x4cm (9.5x6x1.5 inches), 2021
Maya Hottarek, Freedom of unwanted obligations, glazed ceramic, 26x17x10cm (10.2×6.7×4 inches), 2021