DUALITY is the first exhibition in Austria by the Franco-Mexican sculptor Eloise Ettore, featuring a human-scale steel sculpture, that interacts with the gallery space and invites the visitor to explore its tridimensional reality emerging from around and within the artwork.

Greatly influenced by her childhood in Mexico, Eloise Ettore's practice delves into the transitional and ephemeral states of matter often interacting in subtle antinomies. Constructed from reused materials, the sculpture carries remnants of past structures thus recasting their memories, with their initial functions being repurposed and recombined into new assemblies.

For her sculpture, Eloise Ettore manipulates reinforcement bars of galvanized steel to shape two rectangular cages rising vertically, reminding of the human body, and maintained in tension by a stretched nylon thread, in an analogy to soft human muscles binding solid bones together. Likewise, cable ties are used, instead of weld points, to affix the steel elements of the cage, further emphasizing the paradoxical fragility and instability of body and matter.

While the cages are made of reinforcement steel, solely a thin thread is holding them together in an uncertain equilibrium, under the constraints of time and gravity. Exhibiting the duality of their conditions, their fate oscillates between static balance and kinetic collapse, thus recalling the visitor of the ineluctability of time. Matter and space are intertwined in a perpetual sequence of cyclical redefinitions and transient states, from construction, stability, expansion to irremediable fragility, decay and disaggregation.

Text by Pascal Molina