JO-HS

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AS: Ladders and staircases recur throughout your work, evoking themes of ascension, flight and levitation. What draws you to these motifs, and how do they connect to the architectural and the cosmic dimensions of your practise.

PK: Ladders and staircases symbolise not only ascend- ing into the heavens or descending into the underworld, but also they express transformation: up, down, sideways. For all of humankind, it is about the movement of ascending to the cosmos - such an important path. The ascent of the ladder and staircase becomes a symbol of the sublime. For me, it symbolises ways for change to happen. I am continuously moving elements in my studio, and installations in space also unfold as they do in daily life. Change lets us exchange their parameters. [These forms] can sometimes be large ladders that become huge and elongated but they can also be small and made in all kinds of materials. Lately, I have been making golden bronze ones that do not have a patina. Gold leaf and gold metals are materials I use to talk about ephemerality and permanence.
Long ago, the alchemists sought to transform lead into gold.

Gold is a material that does not rust and becomes almost timeless. This speaks of the ephemeral and the permanent, the organic and the geometric, etc.

PERLA KRAUZE presented for CONDO cdmx by Georgina Pounds and JOHS

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