JUDITH SAUPPER

It's maybe a silly question but is the dog Part of the work? Or: Rebuild Nature

In the project It’s maybe a silly question but is the dog Part of the work? Or: Rebuild Nature the artist addresses the subject of animlas, nature, and humans. Objects, photographs, and drawings attempt to elucidate misunderstandings that frequently occur in the relationship between animals and humans, and the consequences of the human drive for optimization. How does nature reveal itself to us when it is not evaluated merely in terms of human cost benefit analysis? What role do animals play beyond the categories of the Anthropocene

Pattern: Chimp (Detail)
2019, collaged drawing on paper, 42 x 60 cm

Pattern:
Gorilla, mouse, man, chimp, orang -utan, rhesus monkey, pumpkin, banana
2019, collaged drawing on paper, each 42 x 60 cm

Virtual tour of the exhibition, Claudia Voit in conversation with Judith Saupper

Dialog Judith Saupper and Peter Niedermair at DOCK 20

Exhibition view

Rebuild Nature #3, The path of the bork beetle
2019, object, plaster, wood, lacquer, hemp ropes, approx 200 x 70 x 30 cm

Rebuild Nature #3, The path of the bork beetle
2019, object, plaster, wood, lacquer, hemp ropes, approx 200 x 70 x 30 cm

Rebuild Nature #3 Habitus
2019, b/w photography, 24 x 18 cm

Rebuild Nature #3: Morphos, Metamorphos, Habitus
2019, pencil on paper, pencil and ashes on paper, b/w photography, each 24 x 18 cm

Exhibition view

Interpretation of an octopus second
2019, 8-part collage with pencil and colored pencil on paper

Rebuild Nature #1, Aspen leavs
2019, object, wood, gauze, lacquer, approx 220 x 45 x 60cm

Rebuild Nature #1: Morphos, Metamorphos, Habitus
2019, pencil on paper, pencil and ashes on paper, b/w photography, each 24 x 18 cm

Exhibition view

Rebuild Nature #2, Mantis
2019, object, wood, stone, brass, thread, tyvek, ink drawing on paper, approx 70 x 120 x 130 cm

Rebuild Nature #2, Mantis
2019, object, wood, stone, brass, thread, tyvek, ink drawing on paper, approx 70 x 120 x 130 cm

Rebuild Nature #2: Morphos, Metamorphos, Habitus
2019, pencil on paper, pencil and ashes on paper, b/w photography, each 24 x 18 cm

Rebuild Nature #2 Morphos
2019, pencil on paper, 24 x 18 cm

Rebuild Nature #2 Metamorphos
2019, pencil and ashes on paper, 24 x 18 cm

Exhibition view

Rebuild Nature #4, Pear is not plum
2019, object, leather, paint pen, wood, approx 150 x 60 x 60 cm

Rebuild Nature #4: Morphos, Metamorphos, Habitus
2019, pencil on paper, pencil and ashes on paper, b/w photography, each 24 x 18 cm

The plan of the big misunderstandings
2020, installation with text film, dimensions variabel

Rebuild Nature #5: Morphos, Metamorphos, Habitus
2019, pencil on paper, pencil and ashes on paper, b/w photography, each 24 x 18 cm

Rebuild Nature #5 Morphos
2019, pencil on paper, 24 x 18 cm

Rebuild Nature #5 Habitus
2019, b/w photography, 24 x 18 cm

Rebuild Nature #5, River pebbles
2019, 4 objects, cold glaze, stone, nylon, approx each 30 x 30 x 30 cm

Exhibition view

Portrait of a landscape
second part of exhibitionview, Gallery Hollenstein