Biography
Working in several different mediums and with a number of collaborators from around the world, New York-based, Swiss artist Katja Loher’s explorations of language and visual form come together in an assemblage of present technologies and dramatic sculptures. Translating, in poetic metaphor, the “ambivalent relationships between power, freedom and dependency,” she creates a powerful visual platform that pulls the viewer out of his current perspective and provides a broader perspective with which to address existential questions and present concerns in the world.
Last year Loher created a number of objects that were to offer broad view of human interference with ecologic systems and their artificial reproduction.
Through small holes in a ball or on the surface of weather balloons crowds of people can be seen. They form choreographic formations that can be recognized as texts since they are filmed from a bird’s eye view. Therefore, the ball represents a planet that gives the viewer a look at people that are sending text signals.
