Lightshadow 2023
Shadow phenomena 03, 2023, burned steel, wood. Photo: BonnieWoods
For decades, Margret Holz has dedicated her diverse work to the impact of time on history, on the memory of historical and fictional places and, in a very haptic way, as an impact on the sculptural material.
With the sculpture “Shadow phenomena,” the sculptor shows three large metal disks that have amorphous, shadow-like, intersecting shapes. What we see here is the slow and concentrated penetration of heat through fire into the material steel, through the controlled and precise processing of the sculptor. The previously uniform panes deform under the power of heat and the color nuances of the shadows testify to the formative and also destructive, archaic power of fire. In Margret Holz’s minimalist sculptures, sculptural action materializes, which can be read both as a brand and as a metaphor of burned-in time for the unrepresentable shadows of history. Veronika Witte, Berlin
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In her decades-long work, the shadows of memory materealize, become tangible and present, and shed a metaphorical light on possible future traces of the crisis of transnational and ecological entanglements, border demarcations, fragmentation and the vulnarability of open social and natural systems.