NEW SENSATIONS 2012

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Angelika Steiger Born in Liechtenstein. Lives in: Maidenhead Wimbledon College of Art The world is in constant flux. Materiality is constantly changing, mutating, transforming, interweaving, transfmogrifying. It is spread out in front of our eyes ready to be identified, filtered out, complemented. Where these processes of change take place, where one thing is being formed into something else, where absence and presence meet, where fullness and the void overlap, I feel at home. I call them my “Places-in-between” and make them visible through colour, glass and light. My life has transformed me into a traveller, inviting me once in a while to pause in-between to sense, capture, observe and create. www.angelikasteiger.com

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Work of art I would like to make The A and O My intention is to invite the viewer to enter a tangible sensual energy-freighted space of mystery and wonder, to experience the space in-between. As part of my MA at Wimbledon College of Art I created my sculpture “Zweimal durch die Mutter gehen” (Back to Mother Earth) based on C.G. Jung’s perception of life, namely being born through your mother’s womb and returning to the maternal womb of Mother Earth. It was created out of glass wool (made of recycled glass bottles) red light-tape, glass crystals from broken car windows, as well as spray paint. The object on show measured 1m in diameter and was slit open to form a mandorla (the most energetic shape in in culture and religion throughout the centuries) so as to reveal an intriguing, rubbery, fragile, lit interior. My intention is to enlarge the form into a walk-in mandorla (2.5 diameter) thereby simulating the sensation of entering a womb. The act of crossing the uterine threshold will awake many senses: smell, dampened sound, light and colours, texture, atmosphere. Round, tactile, disturbingly smooth yet with daring edges, my object tempts and invites contemplation. Enclosed from the outside by a mandorla-shaped sensual opening it will be a source of abundance, fascination and wonder. He will find himself embraced by a rigorously contextualized environment: The Alpha and Omega of our life.

My Artworks (2) Click on the images to enlarge