Sliders, 2024

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Slider 1, 2024
Float glass, plaster, pencil drawing on paper
40 x 107 cm

Slider 2, 2024
Float glass, mdf, veneer 
40 x 107 cm

Slider 3, 2024
Float glass, HDF, clamp 
40 x 107 cm



Exhibition view, “Tidying Up a Room” 2024 with Laura Klodt-Bußmann

















For this exhibition, I created three configured sets of sculptures composed of plaster, MDF, float glass, veneer, and pencil drawings. These three linear arrangements mirror the space’s heating structure as well as its materiality and texture. The work began with an exploration of the form and function of a specific, commonly used office item: the sliding binder. I reinterpreted this object in different sizes and materials, bringing the resulting sculptures into a new space. In doing so, I aimed to create a state in which the object absorbs and reflects the DNA of the environment.




We tidy up a room and at some point when things become in a mess, we tidy up once again. It goes on and on. Thinking about restaurants. Foods are spooned, served and consumed. When the plates are finally empty, they are brought back to the kitchen and cleansed. They are piled up on the kitchen shelf and wait for the moment to be called out of the kitchen. In this pell-mell round of organizing and messing up, there is something that is existing in the little bit slower tempo, to support these permanent rotation of labor.

In the communal food sharing kitchen in Neuperlach, Munich, once used to be a Allianz insurance center, there we see the choreography of people moving and interacting within this particular building structure. Considering the gigantic office building turned into a communal kitchen and one office room turned into a room called Speiseraum, two artists Bokyoung Jeong and Laura Klodt-Bußmann aim to create a scenery of assemblage using the existing display structures of the kitchen and try to reflect on the relations between private and public, inside and outside, the whole and the part, productive and non-productive labor and attitude.

Excerpt from the exhibition text "Tidying Up a Room, 2024".
Written by Laura Klodt-Bußann and Bokyoung Jeong