Curatorial text:

“My soul urges me to sing of the transformation into new bodies.” Ovid, Metamorphoses I.1

In “Metamorphosis,” Viktoria Andreeva, Kata Oelschlägel and Katrin S. Weidhofer explore how the body transforms into image, fragment, and apparition. Oelschlägel’s floating skeleton, embroidered with luminous threads, transforms the rigidity of bones into a new vitality. Weidhofer layers photography, watercolor and embroidery to create figures in which memory and rupture are simultaneously palpable. Andreeva weaves the dancer’s body with landscape, whereby form dissolves and relocates itself.

Together, these works show the body as changeable matter: vulnerable, transformed, always in transition. 

This constellation creates a network of physical, emotional, and temporal levels that emerge and which represent the body beyond pure depiction: as a figure of thought and a space of experience.