Titania Seidl, The big skirt inflating before blowing up or The monumental pumpkin lantern igniting before glowing up, 2021, 200x120 cm, watercolor and oil on canvas, installation viewTitania Seidl, the wait, oil on board, 24x18cm, 2021, installation viewTitania Seidl, see it as a stranger might, installation view 01Titania Seidl, The three looking glasses or The three magnifying glasses or The hour glass, 2021, 200x120 cm, watercolor and oil on canvas, installation viewTitania Seidl, two and a half fossilized gestures, 2021, 200x120 cm, watercolor and oil on canvas, installation viewTitania Seidl, book of hours, 2021, oil on board, 24x18cm, installation viewTitania Seidl, three friends waiting in line, 2020, oil on board, 24x18cm, installation viewTitania Seidl, see it as a stranger might, installation view 02Titania Seidl, last month’s shedded skin hung out to dry, 2021, watercolor and oil on canvas, 200x120cm, installation viewTitania Seidl, see it as a stranger might, installation view 03Titania Seidl, faces distorted into pixelated visual static, voices a delayed, alien sounding crackle, 2021, watercolor and oil on canvas, 200x120cm, installation viewTitania Seidl, songs of the early 20s, 2020, watercolor on wood, installation view
Titania Seidl's work concerns itself with the brittle informative value of images. In her show at Bildraum 07, the artist shows both her paintings, defined by diligent observation, and a text piece printed directly onto the gallery walls.
The paintings, both large and small in format, show fragments of motifs taken out of various narrative contexts. The subject matter, found in historical archives, recorded in contemporary everyday life or collected in the stream of digital imagery surrounding us, comes together on the picture plane to form a new whole. The artist thereby evokes a loose narrative, that is also reflected in the lines of texts seemingly floating across the exhibition space. Anecdotal moments intertwine with historically charged objects as the artist switches between different narratorial perspectives.
Titania Seidl (*1988) lives and works in Vienna. She has recently shown at White&Weiss Gallery, Bratislava; Raum mit Licht, Vienna; Jan Koniarek Gallery, Trnava; Daihatsu Rooftop Gallery, Vienna; Bruch und Dallas, Cologne; Quadrado Azul, Porto/Lisbon; White Dwarf Projects, Vienna.