Elisa Treml's artistic work is diverse. For the House of Arts, she has created poetic space installations focusing on colour, lightness and togetherness. Visitors complete the artwork, in which the experience of space is central.
Elisa Treml (*1982/AT) studied in Vienna, Linz and Lisbon. Her work has been shown in numerous exhibitions, including in the United States. After spending extended periods abroad and living in cities, she currently lives and works in Gmunden am Traunsee.
Elisa Treml's work is characterised by diversity and change. She works with different materials and techniques, creating her works in very specific ways: following social impulses, thinking politically, while remaining true to the unfolding of the individual.
Her works are created through the interaction of concept and intuition. The artist is concerned with basic human experiences such as passing and renewal, loss and recovery, apparent stagnation and growth. She creates works that are about transformation and connection.
"The Sky is the Limit" is the title of Elisa Treml's current exhibition at Dubniczay Palace.
A multitude of colourful textile objects of great delicacy fill the room, seemingly floating. They seem at once still and moving, permeable and present. These "Drifters" represent qualities often absent from the space, such as transparency and lightness, stillness and movement, joy and colour. They reveal the "possibility" that can transcend boundaries.
Visitors wandering through the colourful space cause a barely perceptible movement of air, which also sets the objects in motion. The resonance becomes perceptible, creating a slight echo of movement.
In the artist's words, "As waves start and spread out when touching a point on the surface of water, each of us creates reverberations in the room and, thinking in a larger perspective, in the world. And however quickly it fades - our 'echoes' as a whole are a responsibility and a powerful creative force. I like this idea and the encouragement it gives."
In the middle of the second room is a large, almost circular object. Thin wooden sticks are connected to each other through numerous nodes. The structure looks fragile, but its elasticity makes it very resistant. The shape of the ring is open, the enclosing circle is incomplete in one place. Visitors can occupy different positions - inside or outside the object, or as a connecting part of the open part. Here too, the experience of space is essential.
Curator: Szonja Dohnál
The exhibition will be opened by Christian Autengruber, Director of the Austrian Cultural Forum Budapest
