The sunshine makes them shine: leaves and floral ornaments within the colourful glass home windows within the west tower of Linz’s St. Mary’s Cathedral. Nature is at the moment additionally spreading out as a wool carpet in heat earth tones with plant and animal motifs on the viewer’s ft within the chapel.
Padded tree stumps surrounded by citrus and olive bushes additionally invite you to linger within the Backyard of Eden – and to learn works by girls, corresponding to Marlen Haushofer, Sylvia Plath, Helena Adler, Janet Body – all of whom are Monika Pichler’s favourite authors. The artist calls her spatial set up “within the backyard of ladies,” which right this moment opens the sequence “Creative Positions on the Holy Household” and is a part of the “DonnaStage” challenge to mark 100 years of St. Mary’s Cathedral.
Photograph: Ulrich Kehrer
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Photograph: Ulrich Kehrer
The texts are by 5 authors who’ve since died and “inform me tales regarding life as a girl, little one and mom, during which I’ve all the time discovered myself,” says the Hallein native, who teaches on the College of Artwork in Linz. The books – with velvety darkish inexperienced covers that appear to be they’re manufactured from moss – are ready on a stand for individuals who need to seize them.
