Artist Statement Katja Loher
I orchestrate language, movement and video into sculptural forms that transport the audience through narrative concepts, imaginary worlds and visionary ideas. The multidisciplinary seeks to fuse the exterior objects with the expression of an inner imagination.
Posing the possibility of a planetary identity, I imagine a new vision of our global selves that incorporates both the infinite largeness of the universe as well as the infinite smallness as interrelated entities.
As an artist, I use models to create my own observations and experiments in nature. My constructions are ironically an invitation to engage a fantastic version of what is real- and of what can potentially be.
Viewed from above, the clusters of bodies that begin to form words and questions which elicite utopias and dystopias that reflect contemplative
about contemporary issues between the natural planet and the human population.
By creating choreography in the bird's eye perspective I intend to remove the viewer from his or her place. While offering an outside perspective to planet earth I reposition the audience as observers. I suggest that changing one's perspective attempts to dissolve conditioned thinking patterns, prejudices, and investigates new ways of thinking.
A consistent practice in my work, asking questions allows me to communicate concerns against the status quo through metaphor in a reliable artistic syncretism.