Monika Sosnowska

Monika Sosnowska works with large-format installations, sometimes filling an entire room, or with mural paintings employing the techniques of trompe l’oeil. The resulting architectonic constructions can be walked into and around, and they form their own, self-contained worlds, simultaneously irritating and enchanting the viewer by means of their peculiar proportions and labyrinthine passages. In the exhibition room of the Künstlerhaus, the artist has installed an architectonic intervention, an accessible work that develops around the two dominant, central pillars. The apparently cool, rational design of the walls is in stark contrast to the labyrinthine structural elements of the construction. As is so often the case with her works, Monika Sosnowska’s new installation also succeeds in challenging the viewer’s perception and conjuring up “hallucinatory ideas of the labyrinthine, dysfunctional order of space in the real modern world” (Jan Verwoert).