LOOPS AND LISTS

Anna Lerchbaumer and Matilda Odobashi engage with the mundane as material, repeating gestures are part of this landscape. Odobashi’s practice, often rooted in a return to previous works can be a mean to transcend language and explore potentials. New works so often carry traces of their predecessors. The ongoing series error!error! 
(2019-) originates from small-scale drawings that are subsequently transformed into large-format digital compositions and then monotypes. Thus, the work seen on the first exhibition day is so just a fragment of a larger investigations. But what happens when fragments are subtracted and partial views are offered? 
Lerchbaumer, meanwhile, sculpts the rhythms of maintenance, everyday scripts – milk, bananas, bread – mundane beginnings that reveal quiet systems of care. 
Within her works, we can see systems and aesthetics behind upkeep: the motorized rollers underneath a conveyor belt at the kassa, charcuterie netting, vacuum-sealed trays pressing down on chicken breasts. All sterile, precise, ongoing. In both practices, repetition doesn’t clarify – it complicates, resists closure, and makes space for something real to leak through.

Text: Erka Shalari