Esther Stocker
∗1974, Italy
lives and works in Vienna, Austria
In her work, Esther Stocker deals with the question of the perception of structure and space. The deconstruction of exact forms is the starting point for her photographic and video works, paintings, spatial installations and interventions on façades. Stocker develops her works as a system of geometric drawing and grid systems in black, white and grey. She also extends these into the third dimension and changes space and architecture through artistic interventions, whereby disturbances and optical breaks form an important component. The disturbances and breaks are often mi-nimal and cause shifted vague perceptual events that repeatedly demand the viewing of this apparent precision. In this way, the artist creates dynamic pictorial spaces that lose their supposedly clear pattern of order. Esther Stocker designed a large white cube made of wooden beams for the pedestrian zone. The sculpture has the framework of a perfect cube, but one corner is missing. "The work is a homage to the unfinished," Stocker emphasises. For the artist, this opening or void is the most essential part of the sculpture. She distrusts powerful and absolute signs, she likes the idea of an absolute form being questioned. That is why she opens up the form and thereby grants it "an unexpected turn". Nevertheless, or precisely because of this, her seemingly unfinished form is irritating. Moreover, in its minimalism, it appears like a strange foreign body in an urban environment overloaded with signs and symbols. A sign, a form, a body, a three-dimensional geometric object, a sculpture: the work challenges our perception, but it also conditions and changes our view of public space.
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