Exhibition duration: 30/05 to 08/06. Adress: Beethovengasse 7, 2500 Baden.
With Venous, the artist presents a newly developed piece inspired by the rhythm of cicadas as a translocal presence within the soundscapes of the cities she has lived in.
In her performance Luiza dances a circulatory system bounding the bodies of bug and human. Engaging with the Hemolymph which is a substance that flows freely inside of insects, and has the function to transport nutrients & hormones similar to blood inside of our bodies. The story encapsulates us into the fluid potential of textilles, narrating a fiction in which the echos of cicada and human sounds materialize as a growing vessel in space.
Interlaced by soft sculptures, paintings and music created by Francesca Hirschl. The work reflects on soft forms of alchemy which are constantly in process - underneath the cemented grounds of cityscape. Presenting a score that interacts with soil stamina, through fabulation and frames bug structures as recipients of active memory within an ecosystem.
The work is presented at Ephemeral Forms of Presence which unfolds as a five-part experimental exhibition. Through performance, it focuses on moments when art is not something to be displayed, but something to be lived. At its core lies the question of what happens when a work resists permanence, when art dissolves as an event — no longer visible, yet still felt: as a shared act of remembering, as a fleeting trace that exists only within the experience itself.
Venous, 2026. Still image of rehearsal shot by Allegra Kortlang.