Judith Fegerl I Andreas Duscha

With power harvest, Collectors Agenda is organising a duo show featuring two new work series by Judith Fegerl (*1977, Vienna) and Andreas Duscha (*1976, Heidenheim a. d. Brenz). In the show, both artists are exploring humankind’s insatiable (yet inconclusive) desire for never-ending energy and the dream of being able to create that energy. Not by incident do the two work series owe their existence to the influence of the sun for their creation.

To create her iridescent objects, Judith Fegerl coats brass plates with copper in an electroplating bath, unleashing a process that is difficult to control as it is driven mainly by the sun. The electrical energy required for the copper plating process is furnished directly by a number of solar panels installed at the artist’s studio windows. Solar radiation thus feeds and regulates the process of the image formation, over which the artist has to release her own power to create. The results are defined yet varying circular shapes at each panel’s centre that may remind of the Black Hole Sun as sung by Soundgarden (1994).

Andreas Duscha’s mirrored cyanotypes – a slow-reacting photographic formulation that produces a cyan-blue print when exposed to light – take about 15 minutes to emerge. Each work piece features another daring apparatus by an inventor in search of developing a perpetual motion machine, a machine that would work infinitely without an external energy source. In hindsight, all of these attempts were doomed to fail as they violate either the first or second law of thermodynamics, or both.

In the adjacent space, our neighbours Zeller van Almsick are presenting Edin Zenun’s second solo show at the gallery.