Maria Loboda
What’s Best Is Hidden, Obvious, and Correct (2023)
Installation / Commissioned work
Maria Loboda, What’s Best Is Hidden, Obvious, and Correct (2023), installation view, photo: steirischer herbst / kunst-documentation.com, courtesy of the artist
Dates
21.9.–15.10.2023
Location
Church of Ruined Modernity
Graz
Part of
Church of Ruined Modernity
Production specifics
Commissioned and produced by steirischer herbst ʼ23
With the kind support of the Polish Institute in Vienna
Maria Loboda’s installation for the courtyard of Minoriten Monastery, a folly whose title references the classic puzzle game Myst (1993), is full of secrets. In a garden landscape adorned with laurel trees, the playful, ornamental intelligence of Italian modernism meets the asceticism of Eastern Bloc architecture. The question arises: What was more important in modernist architecture, the representation of power or its subversion? This is still a mystery, of which rising vapors and gases referring to the oracle of Delphi serve as a reminder.
Retrospective
Retrospective