Artists: Anna-Sophie Berger, Hayley Silverman and Flaka Haliti
Exhibition title: I Surrender Dear
Venue: Salzburger Kunstverein, Salzburg, Austria
Date: September 24 – November 27, 2016
Photography: all images copyright and courtesy of the artists and Salzburger Kunstverein
Vienna-based artist Anna-Sophie Berger has invited American artist Hayley Silverman and Kosovar artist Flaka Haliti to co-produce an exhibition that explores the nature and value of constructing social environments of artists. As both a testing ground and a series of expressions made visible, this exhibition serves to both encompass as well as give occasion to possibilities made manifest through an open-sharing and non-dualistic, non-individualistic praxis between these three artists.
The exhibition is comprised of these three divergent artists’ voices considering the body explicitly and implicitly. American artist Hayley Silverman presents photographs silk-screened on partitions, depicting queer bodies in states of play and pose. Austrian artist Anna-Sophie Berger contributes a series of works, including textiles partly petrified through concrete. Among her artworks, Kosovar artist Flaka Haliti includes sculptures modeled on security barriers that enforce boundaries and borders on unwanted bodies.
Anna-Sophie Berger, Concrete Coat (Amalfi), 2016
Print on cotton, thread, concrete, 100 x 60 cm
Anna-Sophie Berger, Concrete Coat (Andres), 2016
Print on cotton, thread, concrete , 102 x 36 cm
Anna-Sophie Berger, Concrete Coat (abstract brown), 2016
Print on cotton, thread, concrete, 90 x 52 cm
Anna-Sophie Berger, Concrete Coat (camouflage), 2016
Highlighter on cotton and silk, thread, concrete, 60 x 50 cm
Anna-Sophie Berger, Concrete Coat (easter eggs), 2016
Stained cotton, thread, concrete, 50 x 60
Anna-Sophie Berger, Concrete Coat (Kimono), 2016
Silk taffeta,thread, concrete , 88 x 56 cm
Anna-Sophie Berger, Concrete Coat (made in Italy), 2016
Print on cotton, thread, concrete, 102 x 36 cm
Anna-Sophie Berger, Concrete Coat (stripes), 2016
Silk screen on cotton, thread, concrete, 50 x 70 cm
Anna-Sophie Berger, Concrete Coat (Venice), 2016
Print on cotton, thread, concrete, 90 x 40 cm
Anna-Sophie Berger, Sad Cake Janus, 2016, print on glass, newspaper, c-print on paper, wrapping paper, duck tape, glue, 68 x 68 cm
Hayley Silverman with Jeannine Han, The Debt Collector (Tomorrow Always Comes), 2016, fabric, copper coil, plaster, cotton gloves, sisal, ornamental brocade trim, roulette gambling wheel , approx. 76 x 45 x 1.5 x 152 cm
Hayley Silverman with Jeannine Han, The Debt Collector (Tomorrow Always Comes), 2016, fabric, copper coil, plaster, cotton gloves, sisal, ornamental brocade trim, roulette gambling wheel , approx. 76 x 45 x 1.5 x 152 cm
Hayley Silverman with Jeannine Han, The Debt Collector (Tomorrow Always Comes), 2016, fabric, copper coil, plaster, cotton gloves, sisal, ornamental brocade trim, roulette gambling wheel , approx. 76 x 45 x 1.5 x 152 cm
Flaka Haliti, Untitled, 2016, wall paper print, dimension variable
Flaka Haliti, Untitled, 2016, wall paper print, dimension variable
Flaka Haliti, Untitled, 2016, wall paper print, dimension variable
Hayley Silverman, Whatever You’re Pushing Against You’re Stuck to, 2016, Georgette, Ink, Wood, hinges , 305 x 5 x 183 cm
Hayley Silverman, Whatever You’re Pushing Against You’re Stuck to, 2016, Georgette, Ink, Wood, hinges , 305 x 5 x 183 cm
Flaka Haliti, Untitled, 2014
Four colums, wood structure with brilux paint surface, 308 x 105 x 20
