• Suck
    Suck
    , 2000; plaster, foam rubber, textile, fibre-glass; main part 140 x 120 x 80 cm, tentacles flexible 300 cm; exhibition view: Galerie Hilger; photo: Christan Sturminger
  • Suck
    Suck
    , 2000; plaster, foam rubber, textile, fibre-glass; main part 140 x 120 x 80 cm, tentacles flexible 300 cm; exhibition view: MASC Foundation; photo: Heinz Grosskopf
  • Suck
    Suck
    , 2005; video film; supported by MASC Foundation
  • Suck
    Suck
    , 2005; video film; supported by MASC Foundation
 
  • Suck
    Suck
    , 2000; plaster, foam rubber, textile, fibre-glass; main part 140 x 120 x 80 cm, tentacles flexible 300 cm; exhibition view: Galerie Hilger; photo: Christan Sturminger
  • Suck
    Suck
    , 2000; plaster, foam rubber, textile, fibre-glass; main part 140 x 120 x 80 cm, tentacles flexible 300 cm; exhibition view: MASC Foundation; photo: Heinz Grosskopf
  • Suck
    Suck
    , 2005; video film; supported by MASC Foundation
  • Suck
    Suck
    , 2005; video film; supported by MASC Foundation
 
Suck
, Galerie Hilger and MASC Foundation, Vienna, 2000[ show text ][ hide text ]
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In "Inside-Out" a red tube made of plush juts out from the inner core, which has been cut in half, and extends to the ceiling to which it tries to dock onto. What was only alluded to in this sculpture, actually succeeds in "Suck", 2000. In this sculpture, an eggshaped form that has a small opening, two tentacles with a suction cup at each end meet with the walls. "Suck" addresses the phenomenon of memories, images, utterances, feelings of the past that take hold of one or one takes hold of oneself, which in both cases hinders one from "being in the here and now" (Julie Hayward).
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cited from
The Parallel Worlds of Emotional and Unconscious Realms
Sabine Schaschl-Cooper
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