Interface Cultures – Unuselessness – The Useful useless, the Brucknerhaus is ready
The Brucknerhaus is almost ready for the Interface Cultures – Exhibition, the artists have transformed the foyer into a beautiful space to show their art. The exhibition kicks off at September, 1st, there’s still time to get the details right. One of the exhibits that’s going to turn the visitors’ heads is “sight clearing” from the swiss artist Andrea Suter. And if you ask yourself: “Is this a windscreen wiper on a wall?”, then you can be happy that your eyes are doing a good job. The artist talks about the piece in her own words.
sight clearing, Andrea Suter, 2008
A windscreen wiper is installed onto an inside wall and will draw, leave marks, when rain is falling outside. During everyday usage the windscreen wiper is clearing the windscreen from raindrops, snow and other watery weather residues. The windscreen wiper clears the view from the distortions of the raindrops, helps to gain an undistorted view of the roads and the traffic. The windscreen wiper is an assistant, useful instrument. The windscreen wiper clears the sight. Installed inside, the windscreen wiper looses its usefulness, becomes senseless and pointless but not less meaningful. Rather than wiping something off the surface it leaves marks. While it is raining outside it attempts to clear the surface inside. The rubber of the wiper is wearing off, leaving a drawing of the obsessive attempt to clean. „sight clearing“ is playing with ideas of inside and outside and reverses mechanisms. It challenges our perception of how things are. “sight clearing” is a humorous and minimalist parable towards the everyday.
