Ekaterina Shapiro-Obermair is continuing her investigations of spatial-representational constellations in her current exhibition entitled Double Bind.

As in her previous works, she is interested in the systematic combination of different, sometimes similar, sometimes contrary elements and these are taking on a new level of significance through their close surroundings. The forms and objects, which the artist is dealing with, refer to a broader context and emphasize a connection between knowledge and seeing.

The title of the exhibition is taken from the field of psychology: the term Double Bind means discrepancy in communication, when two concurrent messages are contradicting each other. Applied to Ekaterina’s artistic practice this approach could be considered not as a cause of confusion, but more as a conscious strategy.

Ekaterina Shapiro-Obermair was born in Moscow in 1980, since 2004 she lives and works in Vienna, Austria. She graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna in 2009. Recently she has been awarded the Chimera Art Award in 2015, and the Annual grant of the Pollock-Krasner Foundation, New-York in 2014. Took part in numerous residential programs all around the world including Istanbul, Gyeonggi-do (South Korea), Vienna and Budapest.

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