Diving with Isabell (aus der Reliefserie)
2014
Unfired clay, 20 x 32.5 x 5 cm (without Plant) (Foto Marc Latzel)
Courtesy of Artist and Galerie Mark Müller, Zürich
Empfindsame Wesen (aus der Reliefserie)
2013
Unfired clay, 14.5 x 32.5 x 6.5 cm
Private loan (Foto Yvon Baumann)
Verstellte Sicht (aus der Reliefserie)
2014
Unfired clay, 15 x 35 x 7 cm
Private loan (Foto Yvon Baumann)
All pictures were taken in the exhibition Horizontales Paradies at the Kunstmuseum Luzern.
Much that does not serve or only indirectly serves efficient production or neoliberal labour relations happens horizontally. The acts in Sabian Baumann’s series of reliefs encourage us to think about the role of the corporeal in society, censorship, and repressed desire—desire that does not correspond to heteronormative logics. The work is about sexual preferences, but also about love, ambivalent feelings and sensitivities; it is about being “in relationship” in different ways. A variety of body constellations, memories and visions are shown. The lived and the imagined are mixed in these representations of unfired clay, which, when it gets wet, becomes a kind of primeval mud again, earth, from which all living things come and into which they enter again.
Artist’s Bio:
Sabian Baumann lives in Zurich and works in the media of drawing, sculpture and installation. They frequently initiate and co-organise/curate various transdisciplinary, queer-feminist and intersectional art and film projects. Baumann also teaches art and has received numerous awards, including scholarships in New York and Berlin, and the Erna and Curt Burgauer Grant in 2012.