Sabine Mohr
La tête dans les nuages #1
Sabine Mohr & Sylvie Réno, Galerie Friche de la Belle de Mai , 11. septembre au 9. octobre 1999, Marseille/ France
Text written by Alun Williams (Excerpt)
The art works of Sabine Mohr do not deal with a representation of the world. She prefers to integrate objects of real life to her installations by transforming their entire meaning and state of being. Involved with regard to the "Ready Made" and the interest of changing the state of objects merely by the simple gesture of exhibiting them, Mohr does not take part in this kind of classicim. Her attraction for the found object (objet trouvée) is based on integrating it into the artistic process by broadening its poetical meaning, in order to free its hidden, built-in, potentials for beauty.
Sabine Mohr invites us to wander along the inside and outside of thought, allowing the viewer to discover instead of consuming. Along the way how-ever, you will find certain transformed elements of daily life; the delicate mural with embedded crystals, turns out to be made out of common trash-bags, and the uncooked macaroni placed in a strange domestic setting, appear to be waiting for a tragicomical event to happen, if common use were made of them. Dividing the relations between object - use - evaluation, Sabine Mohr`s work provokes subtle surprises, undermining, re-evaluating and destabilizing our usual everyday world, on the basis of social, domestic, intimate, geographical or existential aspects.
