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by Esther Stocker
In my paintings and installations I am not searching for perfection, I am searching for mistakes. The starting point of my artwork is often a regular geometrical system, regular lines, or the grid — then I repair it. Its damage is it's exactness, this needs to be repaired by damaging it. By slightly changing the form, this can be an absent form, displacement, or a shift. What fascinates me the most are formal paradoxes, the logic of contradiction: that a structure can be ordered and disordered at the same time; that the exactness of geometry sometimes becomes vague.
Esther Stocker has studied art in Vienna, Milano, and Pasadena and lives in Vienna. Her recent shows include: 2013 “Unlimited Space,” Galerie moderního umení v Roudnici nad Labem; 2012 “Portrait of Disorder,” Museum Ritter, Waldenbuch; 2011 “Destino Comune,” Macro, Roma; “In Defense of Free Forms,” Oredaria Arti Contemporanee, Roma; 2008 “Geometrisch betrachtet,” Museum moderner Kunst Wien; 2006 Galerie im Taxispalais Innsbruck, Galleria Contemporaneo Mestre; 2004 “Das Wort‚ gleichartig zieht unsere Aufmerksamkeit auf sich, und doch besagt es eigentlich gar nichts,” AR/GE Kunst Galerie Museum, Bolzano.
Originally appeared in the online supplement to the Beyond Category issue 43.2-44.1