Gaby Peters - Kone Foundation

“When you stir your rice pudding […] the spoonful of jam spreads itself round making red trails […]. But if you stir backwards, the jam will not come together again. Indeed, the pudding does not notice and continues to turn pink just as before. Do you think this is odd?“ from: Tom Stoppard: Arcadia

As in this quote, my work is only at a first glance about movement, mainly however it deals with the logical seeming illogicality of a Tom Stoppard or a Lewis Carrol. I create sculptural installations and work with video. After my State Exam in Art and English Literature at the Kunsthochschule Mainz, Germany I got my Master’s degree in Fine Art from the Glasgow School of Art in 2010. After my studies, I moved back to Germany and am now living and working in the Künstlerhaus Dortmund, an artist-run, non-profit space for contemporary and experimental art.

I am coming to the Saari Residence to find a place where I am able to fully concentrate and focus again on my artwork. I am planning to work on a series of sketches and technical drawings for my next installations and to finish two new video pieces. In addition to my work, I am looking forward very much to walking the woods and lake areas near Saari and to meeting the people in and around Saari Residence – to working inside its own particular world of stories.