“STRETCH” is a comprehensive retrospective of work by artist Alexandra Bircken, showing both early and new site-specific pieces. Fundamental parameters of her work include experimentation with materials and the body as a key point of departure. Skin as covering, as an organ and a cellular structure, but also as a boundary between inside and outside serve as initiator for her multi-layered, meticulously-constructed sculptures. Materials used in her objects are notable for their strikingly diverse, often contradictory qualities: plaster models, waxes, mannequin fragments and pieces of clothing stand in for body parts; structures packed with wool are connected and used as igi vndmts.
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