With wry wit and a formalist approach Erwin Wurm uses simple materials and everyday objects in his performances, photography, video, installations and large freestanding sculptures
With wry wit and a formalist approach Erwin Wurm uses simple materials and everyday objects in his performances, photography, video, installations and large freestanding sculptures, all presented in this inaugural exhibition. In gulp Wurm introduces the theme of the social envelope - clothing, food, furniture, cars, houses - in order to annotate the fragility of both the individual and collective identity behind it. Wurm uses these items as personifications of a social context through which individuals attempt to express themselves all the while being formed and deformed by it.
