a habit a day (165), 2024
150 x 400 cm, Laminierfolien, Text
Kirchengasse, Gmunden
a habit a day (165) is a spatial installation that analyzes everyday repetition and collecting behavior. The work is based on patterns of behavior, beyond the pleasure.
The floor filling installation is accompanied by a note reflecting on the process of chewing. The text refers to the origin of the foils, which contain laminated chewing gum (165). Each slide preserves the number of gums chewed on the corresponding day. Arranged in archival order, they form a calendrical field that is added on every day. Therefore the ongoing project thematizes absurdity and chance, implicit and explicit obsessions and their psychoanalytical shifts from neutral to personal – from inside to outside.
The work was exhibited as part of BestOff in cooperation with Parallel Skulpturenpark in Gmunden, curated by Simone Barlian and Elisa Schmid.
The work was firstly presented as a habit a day (126) during a residency at Bauhaus University Weimar as part of the show opening the archive – hidden narratives.