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June 01, 2023

You shine like I drank the moon

Michaela Schweighofer at KOMPLOT, Brussels
April 14 — June 11, 2023

Smells like mean spirit from the series The fetishist‘s apprentice (desire uprising), 2023 (fine art baryta paper print, passepartout, linden frame, museum glass)

For her first solo exhibition in Belgium, Michaela Schweighofer has created a new sculptural installation, consisting of five series. Co-produced by Phileas, it consists of sculptures and images within a site-specific installation that brings together objects that are derived from the urban architecture and the domestic interior: always combining and questioning binaries where the external is melting into the internal, the city into the home, the masculine into the feminine. The sculptures are vessels, stuffed and empty at the same time, always tightly lashed to be kept in place. They whisper about our conflicts, wishes, dramas and desires.

Installation shot You shine like I drank the moon
Installation shot You shine like I drank the moon
Compressed in every way, dysfunctional on every level (The Phineas Cage complex), 2023 (manila wood, fleece, taffeta, organza, silk, sleeping mat, wire, metal, belt loop, leather, lacquer, thread, can tabs, granddad‘s washers)
Compressed in every way, dysfunctional on every level (The Phineas Cage complex), 2023 (manila wood, fleece, taffeta, organza, silk, sleeping mat, wire, metal, belt loop, leather, lacquer, thread, can tabs, granddad‘s washers)
It‘s so romantic when you say this from the series The fetishist‘s apprentice (desire uprising), 2023 (fine art baryta paper print, passepartout, linden frame, museum glass)
Riding high on capital A-nxiety from the series The fetishist‘s apprentice (desire uprising), 2023 (fine art baryta paper print, passepartout, linden frame, museum glass)
Compressed in every way, dysfunctional on every level (The Phineas Cage complex), 2023 (manila wood, fleece, taffeta, organza, silk, sleeping mat, wire, metal, belt loop, leather, lacquer, thread, can tabs, granddad‘s washers)
Compressed in every way, dysfunctional on every level (The Phineas Cage complex), 2023 (manila wood, fleece, taffeta, organza, silk, sleeping mat, wire, metal, belt loop, leather, lacquer, thread, can tabs, granddad‘s washers)
Installation shot You shine like I drank the moon
Swimming in moral murkiness from the series The fetishist‘s apprentice (desire uprising), 2023 (fine art baryta paper print, passepartout, linden frame, museum glass)
Staged confusion from the series The fetishist‘s apprentice (desire uprising), 2023 (fine art baryta paper print, passepartout, linden frame, museum glass)
Compressed in every way, dysfunctional on every level (The Phineas Cage complex), 2023 (manila wood, fleece, taffeta, organza, silk, sleeping mat, wire, metal, belt loop, leather, lacquer, thread, can tabs, granddad‘s washers)
Compressed in every way, dysfunctional on every level (The Phineas Cage complex), 2023 (manila wood, fleece, taffeta, organza, silk, sleeping mat, wire, metal, belt loop, leather, lacquer, thread, can tabs, granddad‘s washers)
Compressed in every way, dysfunctional on every level (The Phineas Cage complex), 2023 (manila wood, fleece, taffeta, organza, silk, sleeping mat, wire, metal, belt loop, leather, lacquer, thread, can tabs, granddad‘s washers)
Installation shot You shine like I drank the moon
If clammy were a color from the series The fetishist‘s apprentice (desire uprising), 2023 (fine art baryta paper print, passepartout, linden frame, museum glass)
Installation shot You shine like I drank the moon
Compressed in every way, dysfunctional on every level (The Phineas Cage complex), 2023 (manila wood, fleece, taffeta, organza, silk, sleeping mat, wire, metal, belt loop, leather, lacquer, thread, can tabs, granddad‘s washers)
Compressed in every way, dysfunctional on every level (The Phineas Cage complex), 2023 (manila wood, fleece, taffeta, organza, silk, sleeping mat, wire, metal, belt loop, leather, lacquer, thread, can tabs, granddad‘s washers)
I linger again with my lifelong lover: you, spectator. from the series The fetishist‘s apprentice (desire uprising), 2023 (fine art baryta paper print, passepartout, linden frame, museum glass)
Installation shot You shine like I drank the moon
Installation shot You shine like I drank the moon
Installation shot You shine like I drank the moon
Installation shot You shine like I drank the moon
You know, you made my eyes burn. from the series Smothering Heights, 2022-23 (scarves, leather, paper)
The evening widens then shrinks from the series Smothering Heights, 2022-23 (scarves, leather, paper)
The evening widens then shrinks from the series Smothering Heights, 2022-23 (scarves, leather, paper)
Frankenstein-ing a monster from the series Smothering Heights, 2022-23 (scarves, leather, paper)
Frankenstein-ing a monster from the series Smothering Heights, 2022-23 (scarves, leather, paper)
Installation shot from the series Smothering Heights, 2022-23 (scarves, leather, paper)
I make wine from your tears. from the series Smothering Heights, 2022-23 (scarves, leather, paper)
I make wine from your tears. from the series Smothering Heights, 2022-23 (scarves, leather, paper)
If you wore your heat from the series Smothering Heights, 2022-23 (scarves, leather, paper)
The moon is tender ce soir, you say with your guilt-free accent. from the series Smothering Heights, 2022-23 (scarves, leather, paper)
The moon is tender ce soir, you say with your guilt-free accent. from the series Smothering Heights, 2022-23 (scarves, leather, paper)
Installation shot The only color I see is red., 2017/2023 (props, lacquer, plaster, styrofoam)
Installation shot The only color I see is red., 2017/2023 (props, lacquer, plaster, styrofoam)
Installation shot The only color I see is red., 2017/2023 (props, lacquer, plaster, styrofoam)
Simmering anger from the series The fetishist‘s apprentice (desire uprising), 2023 (fine art baryta paper print, passepartout, linden frame, museum glass)
Sanctimonious grifting, 2023 (poster print, Venetian blinds)

You shine like I drank the moon
Michaela Schweighofer

KOMPLOT, Brussels
April 14 — June 11, 2023

Curator: Koi Persyn

Exhibition text: Stefano Faoro

Photography: Chantal van Rijt

The exhibition is made possible through the generous support of Phileas – the Austrian office for contemporary art, BMKOES, ÖKF Brüssel, Land Steiermark, VGC, COCOF, FWB and the municipality of Anderlecht.

Michaela Schweighofer (b. 1983) is a visual artist from Austria, based in Brussels and Vienna. She has an inquisitive approach to sculpture that often leads to immersing herself in handicrafts and new techniques. Michaela is interested in sociopolitical and feminist questions, which she explores within her practice and in various collaborative formations. Her work takes shape in texts, lectures, sculptures, and sculptural installations. In 2020, Forum Stadtpark published her book FROM THE PROP TO THE INSIDE, a theoretical-subjective anthology in which she interrogates her own practice by writing and gathering texts on the concept of the sculpture as prop and the stage as installation. She studied English, Psychology and Philosophy at the Karl-Franzens-University in Graz and the Université VII in Paris, as well as Video and Sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna and the University of Fine Arts (HFBK) in Hamburg.

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