In her works, Marlene Kargl isolates objects and materials from their spacial surroundings in order to
rearrange them in concentrated, artificially created spaces.
With their everyday aesthetics, these stage-like environments evoke associations and thus become a
stage and platform for projection of personally experienced events and memories.
Marlene‘s works make use of found objects as well as carefully crafted sculptural elements, always com-
bining autofictional approaches with socially relevant questions.
By covering a big range of materials, such as printed fabric, wax and ceramics, as well as wooden struc-
tures and carpets, a strange familiarity is created.
Coming from a background of rather traditional artistic and sculptural techniques, Marlene literally
casts and copies the surfaces and structures of ever present consumable goods. The process of changing
an object‘s materiality and context allows her to reduce it to its very essence and by that to expose social
codes, culture-specific inscriptions and internalized associations one might have towards an object,
surface, or domestic environment.