Barbara Philipp
Match
Photography
2022
There is a deep intimacy from the mother’s glance of standing up, fighting again, being in the ring, passing the match, loosing, winning, being the bad or the good guy, putting all my physical being/entity into the fight until the moment to be able to give up. Never it is the last time...
Barbara Philipp is a visual artist, working in the Netherlands and in Austria.
The human body in transition in our times and its abstractions are key to her work, she explores the relationship of different formal and contextual languages.
The artistic translation is located between words, images and the imagination that point to an allegedly perfect world. She studied in Vienna, Paris and Frankfurt and finished the MA program of the Dutch Art Institute (DAI)
” My drawing In The Ring triggered my wish to transfer it into the three-dimensional, the object in action. Therefore I soon found some boxer gloves to work on and to appropriate them for their actual purpose of fighting with and against me.
Before sending the gloves to be part of an exhibition, with the risk to lose them on the delivery way, I decided to stage them in relation to me.
In consequence, the conflict and incapacity of solving emotional issues easily were peeled and framed into photography. For me there is a big intimacy in this work, of standing up, fighting again, being in the ring, passing the match, losing, winning, being the bad or the good guy, putting all my physical being/entity into the fight until the moment to be able to give up. Never it is the last time…”
