ANYA TISH GALLERY // OCT 23 // 6-9PM
KATJA LOHER

SCULPTING IN TIME
Anya Tish Gallery is delighted to announce the first Houston solo
exhibition of New York-based Swiss artist, Katja Loher, Sculpting in
Time. The Artist will be present at the exhibition’s opening reception
Friday, October 23rd, 6:00 to 9:00 PM.

Working in several different mediums and with a number of
collaborators from around the world, Loher’s explorations of
language and visual form come together in an assemblage
of present technologies and dramatic sculptures. Katja’s video
sculptures have been shown internationally from China to Europe ,
and she is a recipient of the Swiss TPC CreaTVty Award. She has
just completed residencies in Berlin , Germany and in Beijing ,
China , as well as being awarded several prestigious grants.

In her Miniverse Series Katja Loher creates a push and pull between
traditional mediums and innovative conventions, impregnating
sphere - shaped sculptures with her videos accompanied by a
soundtrack by Asato Fudjimoto. Loher’s video sculptures explore
the complex relationship between humanity and nature through
a depiction of a bird’s eye view of choreographed movements of
uniformed crowds performing tasks that formerly occurred in nature
without human interference.

The spheres act as communicative vessels in which vortexes and
tunnels allow one’s eye to travel and transport necessary
information from one video to the next. They suggest innovations
of the future through their sleek acrylic design, establishing
a new kind of modernized brain as a means to protect a sense of
unity between the natural planet and the human population.

The works transform the gallery into a liminal space in which the
video sculptures float effortlessly like planetary objects around
an anthropomorphic sun evoking themes of existence as well
as mortality.  A door with a peephole sits mysteriously within
the gallery that when looked through, challenges the viewer’s
voyeuristic sensibilities by projecting one’s magnified eye onto
a nearby weather balloon. The viewer is unknowingly transported
from the gallery space into an obscured world of new perspective,

instantly becoming an integral part of Loher’s collective resistance
against the prospect of unbalanced future.
Anya Tish Gallery
4411 Montrose Boulevard
Houston, Texas 77006
(713) 524-2299
www.anyatishgallery.com
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