Ana Strika, an artist from Zurich, was a guest in the smaller Sitterwerk studio in October.
Ana Strika’s artistic practice deals with processes such as memory and imagination and how they are engendered, disperse, and morph once again. She approaches these processes by putting fragile and temporary spatial settings into different constellations again and again, and thus creating, as it were, “making-of scenes” of perceiving, thinking, and remembering. For some time, she has been experimenting with objects made from various materials and concentrating her fundus of objects site-specifically in temporary spatial constructions.
The one-month stay in the Sitterwerk was part of her ongoing Tour de Skills: her examination of materials, their production and history, work processes, and techniques. The surroundings and exchange with the experts of the Kunstgiesserei gave her important stimuli for this. Her research in the Material Archive and the Art Library flowed into her collections of pictures, which visualize an arrangement, order, and aggregation of various areas of interest such as movement, sculpture, fleetingness, and stabilization, and serve her as an ongoing basis for her experimental work.
The spacious and quiet guest studio offered her an ideal space to further develop her fragile, ceiling-high constellations of rods, wire, string, and wax parallel to her research work.
Ana Strika studies at the Zurich University of the Arts (ZHdK).