SCULPTURES

Within an obsessive cultural context of hypertexts, e-learning and digitization, Christina Mitrentse creates an array of humorous meditations on materiality by re-appropriating books from her ATML project -A montage of radical philosophy, popular novels, science and art books have been defaced, handcrafted, Twisted, cut and stuck together as ‘building blocks’, meticulously transformed into organic and yet architectural constructions of small scale ‘Pedestals’, ‘Plinths’, Coloumns , 'Akrokerama' and ‘Mushrooms’ . Their sculptural formulation raises questions regarding hierarchies of institutions provoking viewers to explore relationships between the social purpose and the cultural significance of ‘the Book’ as foreboding container for the distribution of knowledge. What does materiality mean in a digital era? ”Addressing the relationship of disembodied knowledge to embodied experience and materiality. Within the digital market ‘ATML’ acts as a non-normalised institution, a new place of knowledge”.