From Art in America, May 2008: The three new works in...Pieroth's solo exhibition...occupy the ambiguous meeting ground of humor and poetry.
30 Days of New Life Berlin: Kirsten Pieroth
GERMANY
From Klosterfelde:
Kirsten Pieroth's artistic method draws on appropriartion and displacement, inflicting subtle manipula-tions on everyday objects and situations to suggest a variety of possible readings.
In 2001, for example, she pumped a Berlin street puddle into water canisters and relocated the puddle in Albania by pouring the water out in an exhibition space of the First Tirana Biennial. For another work en-titled Dead Ant (2005), Pieroth used a Penguin edition of The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes to squash an ant with the back cover of the book. Detective Story presents another humour-tinged... [Read More]
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