LOST LIMITS
Anne Glassner/ Marit Wolters
Exhibition/Performance, Fundació Mies van der Rohe, Pavillion, Barcelona 2025
With Lost Limits, Anne Glassner and Marit Wolters explore the relationship between private and public space within the architectural context of the Mies van der Rohe Pavilion.
Marit Wolters’ works speak of presence: ephemeral constructions in constant dialogue with the place they inhabit, exploring and revealing the potential of the material. Anne Glassner’s performances revolve around the observation of recurring everyday acts.
Together, they present an artistic intervention at the Mies van der Rohe Pavilion that brings their respective languages together to establish a dialogue between architecture and nature, the public and the private, the domestic and the exhibition space, the observer and the observed, the banal and the exceptional: presence and absence.
Concrete pieces, made with the water from the pavilion’s pool itself, are integrated into the space and take on an appearance very similar to the travertine that frames the pond in which they are placed. They are regularly watered, evoking the daily gesture of tending to plants.
Textile pieces, which bring a mark of domesticity more typical of a home than of the Pavilion, may at the same time, with their marble-like pattern, become the key to integrating the wearer into the architecture itself.
In the performance the artists wear camouflage clothing that visually fuses them with the architecture. Everyday actions—sitting, walking, looking, lying down, drinking, eating, or playing—are recontextualised within the Pavilion space. At the same time, visitors become part of the performance, and their presence may interrupt or redirect the performers’ actions.
https://www.phileas.art/institutions/glassner-wolters
exhibition produced in collaboration with Phileas – The Austrian Office for Contemporary Art, Bildrecht, Federal Ministry of Housing, Arts, Culture, Media and Sport – Republic of Austria and Hangar | Centre de producció i recerca artística
photos: Christian Prinz
photos: Anna Mas