Perhaps another way to describe Br\u00e6in\u2019s ingenious commentaries, reactions, and inversions of the main logic of any room is to say that the artist\u2019s installations advocate the out-of-the-question. In the spirit of the impractical, they shed light on the impossible, the invisible, and the unspeakable, which contest the programmed organisation of the surrounding architecture.Br\u00e6in\u2019s focus on materials that are non-representative or simply not recognisable as pieces of art, such as bits of domestic paraphernalia, manages to make the sculptures blur into the gallery space, to seem like both sculptural pockets and discomfiting, unkempt space.<\/p>\n
One could call them post-formal interventions: Masking tape on partly painted walls, loose tiles, and decontextualised bits of furniture (a shelf, a handrail) are the ingredients for her spatial ensembles \u2013 ensembles that aren\u2019t anchored in tectonic space but temporarily set-up, make-shift, ready to be moved again. While certain materials \u2013 carpet, masking tape, tiles \u2013 are recurring tropes in her work, Br\u00e6in continually finds fresh ingredients (often remnants of the installation\u2019s own making). In Venice, for example, she placed on a shelf cardboard boxes, an empty water bottle, a little box with plastic bags, and the discarded packaging from cosmetics she had bought at the airport.<\/p>\n
Although her compositions are always simple, even minimal, Br\u00e6in unhinges the clean and impersonal vocabulary of Minimalism with the coincidences of a private life. Her works are charged with the tensions between the understated and the bold, the restricted and the free, formal language and personal style.<\/p>\n
(Excerpt from: Andrea Kroksnes, \u2018Wall to Wall. Andrea Kroksnes on the art of Kristina Br\u00e6in\u2019, in: Artforum International, March 2004.)<\/p>\n
Kristina Br\u00e6in, born 1955 in Oslo (Norway).<\/p>\n
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