Helen Mirra

In Helen Mirra’s pieces various media and materials convene which the artist utilises for her work: Photography, film, sound, language and textiles participate in a conceptual dialogue with classical genres such as sculpture, painting and drawing. Often found objects from nature form the basis for Mirra’s work, their meaning is reformulated thorough appropriation and embedded in a narrative context. Here she develops a reduced language of images and objects, accompanied by an abstract linking of space and time: Mirra creates references to a reality which lies outside of the work, which includes her own movement through time and space, and transfers it into the exhibition situation as a snapshot.

Points of origin in Mirra’s artistic work are nature and the reformulation of order and reference systems. The artist engages with nature in a physical process - by taking hikes. The respective landscape that the artist perambulates determines both the material and the structure and form of the developing work. In her installations poetic landscapes emerge, which the artist does not base on actual and comprehensible plots, but instead develops in a simultaneous presentation of the visible, language and imagination, as new works that are abstracted in her fictitious reconstruction.

Field Recordings, 7 x eine Stunde, außerhalb Zürichs (Hinterrhein), 27 Juni

Field Recordings, 7 x 5000 Schritte, in Berlin (Dachsberg), 9 August

Field Recordings, 7 x 3-5 km, um Bonn (von Bad Honnef), 15 Juli

Heute hat es ein wenig geregnet, und sie liebt ihn also, 8 (Today it rained a little and so she loves him, 1)

Sky-wreck drawing, Eastern Northern 1/2%

11°N Parallel at a scale of one inch to one degree longitude

Helen Mirra

Helen Mirra

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