An exhibition by Amy Croft and Stefan Eichhorn
OPENING:
Wednesday 2 September, 7pm
EXHIBITION CONTINUES:
Thursday 10 September 2009 (Tuesday - Sunday, 10am-6pm)
VENUE:
HDA im Palais Thinnfeld, Mariahilferstraße 2, 8020 Graz
Produced with the support of Pepinieres
Made in the Dark is an exhibition developed by artists Amy Croft and Stefan Eichhorn from their residencies in Graz, which took place between March and June 2009. During their residencies Amy Croft researched the participatory housing estates of Eilfried Huth, while Stefan Eichhorn developed a contemporary mailing rocket, in homage to the Graz based rocket-researcher Friedrich Schmiedl (1902-1994).
While each artists' project developed independently the exhibition title points to an approach of self-building or D.I.Y, shared by both of the artists' chosen subjects and conjures up images of the lone inventor in his garden shed or the home-maker, unrestrained by architectural fashions . Far from this being a melancholic attitude, Made in the Dark celebrates such demonstrations of individual ingenuity and self-expression.
For the exhibition Amy Croft will develop new work responding to the various forms of her research which included interviews with the residents of 'Am Leopoldsgrund', Puntigam (built: 1976-1982) and 'Eschensiedlung', Deutschlandsberg (built: 1972-1992), documentary photographs of the homes and archival material. The notion of making a public exhibition of such a personal subject as 'home' is an important consideration for Amy and will be transferred into the final works by engaging the audience at different levels of intimacy and proximity.
