Sarah Margnetti, 1983

Art

Jury report

This artist intertwines a variety of different elements in her work such as set painting and the exhibition context, staging and statement, motifs and themes, display and concealment, allusion and elaboration. Fitted into an architectural niche, her larger than life panels speak of showing and hiding; the curtain reveals a nose, yet conceals the seated figure, thus emphasising its nakedness. At the same time, an ear, made up of an arm, a leg and a head, forces the curtain back; the play of allusions begins. Our sight and sense of touch collide upon one another in this piece, as do marbled backgrounds and woodgrain ones, foil and painting, brush and airbrush. Here, the exhibition – a site of staging – is reinterpreted as a site of close observation.