passage

2015

Centre d‘Arts et de Nature, Domaine de Chaumont-sur-Loire (France)

Site: forestborder, start of a narrow trail
Material: metal, paint, steel cable, twigs and branches

About:
Cornelia Konrads creates permanent or temporary site-specific installations. Whatever the materials used (wood, stone or brick for example) - usually gathered on-site - the structures seem to dissolve and fall apart before our very eyes. This is the case for The Gate, a mind-boggling installation set up in 2004 in Fontainebleau Forest. The stones seem to hang, weightless, in mid-air as they crumble away from the existing stonework of a doorway worn down with age. The effect stops you in your tracks, catching you completely by surprise. In 2007, Konrads conjured up a slender and astonishing installation in a forest in Osnabrück, Germany (Skulpturenlandschaft), made from branches and wire. In 2001, „Le Vent Des Forêts“ (Lorraine), an open-air contemporary art centre, housed one of her sculptures: Rising fall… Now no more than a memory, this piece at one time showcased an „endless“ display of swirling twigs dancing in the air ...

Cornelia Konrads‘ silent exhibits monopolise your attention and shake your sense of sureness. The past few years have seen her dot ever more of these transitional, challenging spaces around the world - creating intermediate moments of instability.

For the Domaine de Chaumont Cornelia has designed this Passage, which leads us towards mysterious and poetic destinations.

Katja Feltrin, Connaissance des arts (Edition Chaumont sur Loire) 2015

Centre d‘Arts et de Nature, Domaine de Chaumont-sur-Loire