Franziska Furter
Some Echoes Some Shadows
22. März – 26. Mai 2013

Lichthaus Arnsberg presents "Some Echoes Some Shadows", the solo exhibition by Swiss artist Franziska Furter.

Furter responds to the architecture of the Lichthaus with an installation that incorporates the sky as a background and component of her work. She incorporates the changing light conditions with the natural course of the day in her work by directing her gaze upwards. The moment of the first sunshine, of good weather as a sign of the long-awaited spring, is associated with a feeling of happiness that she wants to reinforce with her installation.

Drawing is Franziska Furter's medium and the starting point for her exhibition in the Lichthaus. A net-like structure made of strings of pennants floats in the room, colourful plastic triangles meander on white ribbons without touching the glass walls of the building. They dance obliviously around themselves and extend the drawing into three dimensions. The coloured triangles reflect the sun and illuminate each other; lined up in a windless room, they nevertheless seem to have a dynamic momentum and fill the space with movement. Quiet, and yet you can almost hear music.

On the one hand, Furter transforms the light house into a space of happiness by staging a festive situation. On the other hand, she creates a spatial drawing reminiscent of the weather maps in the news. However, the free hanging excludes any use of the space and thus opens up new spaces for interpretation.

Franziska Furter was born in Zurich in 1972. She has had solo exhibitions at Palais de Tokyo (Paris), Kunsthaus Baselland (Basel), Esspace d'art Contemporain (Porrentruy), Palazzo (Liestal) and Kunstmuseum (Thun), among others. Furter lives in Basel and Berlin.