Faller und Budasz
Ariane Faller is born in 1978 in Furtwangen, Germany and Mateusz Budasz in 1979 in Poland. They live and work in Furtwangen, Germany
In their artistic work, which they have been pursuing together since 2003, they are particularly interested in the moments in which one has to reorient and position oneself. Interfaces where definitions and boundaries are questioned, things that are supposedly “set in stone” are overturned and drawers are left behind before they are finally closed.
They understand not only color and line as the subject of the picture – but the picture itself. Their modular picture bodies are created in the consciousness of the original “panel picture”. By networking them with each other, with photographs, objects from everyday life and, last but not least, with the space itself, they try to recognize, grasp and logically derive connections and to address different spatial and environmental situations through site-specific installations.
Seemingly untouched or strongly influenced by people: places are manifestations of atmosphere, mood, and time, but also potential for memories. Their works are distillates of moments, current and past, a cuvée of visual fragments that show their perception of places and moments, their viewpoints and questions and transfer them into existing, “real” structures, but also aim to evoke personal impressions and memories of other people. The integration of seemingly non-art everyday materials, such as frequently used wooden folding trestles, roof battens, or old disposable pallets, which are occupied – even fraught – with numerous associations, evokes different levels of time and experience as an essential element of their work. As relics of fleeting moments, photographs are also projection surfaces for concrete and associative realities. It is not “their” world that they want to show, it is all of ours.
It is not the exclusion of the everyday, personal from the visual arts that creates sustainability or universality, but rather the thematization of changing current events and substantial changes in the lives and thoughts of all of us. In this sense, they see their works as visual and haptic investigations of the reality that they presuppose or at least assume, multidimensional collages and spatial images as an approach to a multidimensional world.
