Falke Pisano & Ana Roldan Dynamo

Ana Roldan (b1977 Mexico City, lives and works in Zurich) and Falke Pisano (b1978, lives and works in Berlin) are showing a work jointly developed by the two artists, a three-part textile work originally conceived as a floor covering and with a drawing of each artist imprinted on it. This floor covering was seen as a playground for several objects which originated in earlier exhibitions and installations of the artists. While the textile works present a common base, objects of Pisano and Roldan that carry their history and meaning with them are placed in relationship to each other, thus forming a new context for interpretation. On a textual level, for a script, three scenes are described on the play list with sixteen positions of the objects, which were changed in past exhibitions over the whole exhibition period. In Glarus a new version is to be seen, where this choreography is now only described, without being put into practice. In this way, the movements of the objects in space take place only in the imagination of the viewer. The relationship between instruction and realisation thus becomes an open process, in which the viewer also plays a role. Roldan studied linguistics and history before she turned to the visual arts. Her works, often based on sign systems marked by cultural codes, which have to be decoded, constantly challenge the viewers into interaction. The work is completed only in relation to them and their cognitive participation. The works of the Dutch artist Pisano come from her interest in thinking about the possibilities of language when analysing art works. Her main focus is on the conditions and mechanisms of modernist sculpture as well as the theme of abstraction in itself. In videos and lecture-performances she tries to work out the substance of sculptural objects with the resources of language and text constructions. In this way Pisano moves into the space between artist and viewer, or production and reception. In her works the process of perception is thus made available to experience and her personal commentary alters the way things are seen.