Under the auspices of the installation series "A View from Outside - Continued", the Sigmund Freud Privatstiftung is exhibiting the work of three artists in the former store of the Kornmehl butcher shop in Berggasse 19. Following on from the installation of Ernesto Neto "Tractatus IDeuses" , we then present "The Tired Room", created by Monika Sosnowska.

I would like to create a multilayered work that refers to the state of mind of somebody, who is loosing his mind, while at the same time it will question reality. The visual work will be a sculpture (or maybe it would be better to say an installation) of a deformed room. It should display a kind of damage that could not possibly have really happened. I would like to achieve an atmosphere, in which the room in a certain sense becomes a mental space expressing particular emotions and certain states of mind. One might, for instance, describe what has been happening in the room in the following way:

… the door doesn't want to close; trying to close it seems not to suit the frame anymore; it can't be fully open, nor can it be closed perfectly; in addition it looks a bit deformed; the bottom is a bit bigger compared to the top edge. Maybe it is the fault of the wall, which is leaning a bit. But is the wall leaning or is the floor sloped? …there are also some visible bulges on the ceiling, making up a kind of landscape of a few hills hanging upside down…is something pressing down on the room from above? …and the room seems to be getting smaller; the walls are magnetizing each other, coming closer and closer…

Encountering the exhibition, the viewer will see the room, which visualizes what is supposed to be merely the imagination of a damaged brain.. The room looks like it is being squeezed by a giant. I am preparing the project by building a small paper model, which I will later press in my hands. The final work will be of course different. The deformation of the room shouldn't look like after a cataclysm, but rather precisely sculptured and designed, in geometrical forms. At the same time, when looking at the exhibition one may think that something is happening with one's perception. So the situation is changing again, and the "mental space" is coming back to the brain.

Monika Sosnowska
Folder on the Installation by Monika Sowsnowska

Exhibition durance:
8 September – 4 November 2005