𝖂𝖍𝖎𝖙𝖊 𝕲𝖚𝖎𝖑𝖙
30.3.2023 - 30.4.2023 Cafe Wirr Vienna

White Guilt is a series of mixed media artworks, objects and collages focusing on issues of cultural appropriation and performative allyship. The works are exploring perspectives on racism in a post-colonial context, looking for new approaches to perceiving identity and personality in terms of heritage and color of skin. Furthermore the works are a self-critical exercise in bringing awareness to a "trending" performative allyship approach when it comes to political activism, such as the Black Lives Matter movement, and are trying to identify and dismantle non-authentic solidarity in a eurocentric environment.

Artist statement:

White Guilt is trying to capture chaotic frameworks as an allegory for social structure in relation to cultural tensions. It is an attempt to visually formulate a „white liberal position“ which is in itself an attempt to fail as an impossible task. A risk taken, to draw attention to the issue of cultural appropriation and a call to reflect on performative allyship from the perspective of the privileged (= white european).

A Whole new World (Series)
Shown as part of the Group Show “Non Degradable” (MQ Vienna)

A Whole new World
2022
Mixed media. Assemblage.
120 x 180 cm // 47.2 x 70.6 in

„There is often a consensus among artists to consciously address the crisis of climate change and to actively deal with it (artistically) as well. But at the same time, artistic creation itself produces environmentally harmful waste.
The use of paints, spirits, animal-based products, paper, etc. is incompatible with the desire to end climate change and the exploitation of nature and its resources.

The current lifestyle of people as a collective is also not degradable through consumption, excess and waste. The non-decomposable traces of today will remain for future generations. What the ancestors believed in, how they ate, what tools they used are the eternal traces of non-recyclable objects. As a sculptor, the curator Osama Zatar personally faces the problem of having to dispose of unused material and, himself, tries to find a way to solve this problem. Based on this, in “Non degradable”, together with EDUCULT, he invites three artists* to convey this paradox through their works, consciously drawing attention to ephemerality and sustainability in the art world.

In the new exhibition as part of the “Salon der Kulturen”, visual artists Stefanie Koscher, Thaer Maarouf and Otmar Wagner enter into an artistic discourse.“

VARIOUS WORKS

This is War (2019)

A mixed media series on boundaries and tensions in relation to identity politics.

DISPOSABLE MEMORIES
2019

Disposable Memories is a mixed media object series, that deals with memory as a fragmented and flawed concept of consciousness. It is an attempt to bring together and combine visual stimuli into a new mix, create an impulse to provoke new trains of thought and emotion.

Collage, mixed media. Acrylic, paper, marker, sticker, cardboard on floppy disk. Each aprox. 10 x 10 cm // 3.9 x 3.9 in

“Screenshots of Despair” solo exhibit
2019

Jan Arnold Gallery Vienna Museumsquartier
Exhibition view

2018 AND OLDER…

FLEXIBLES SYSTEM
2011/2018
7cm x 14.5cm x 3.5 cm
Mixed Media Object Series - collage, decoupage
IKEA table legs, acrylic, marker, paper

SCREENSHOTS OF DESPAIR

“The Decorative Series” (2010/2016)

NOTHING TO SAY
2011-2013
mixed media series

OLDER WORKS…