The bizarre space of complex numbers

Olga Balema’s practice explores sculpture as a form open to reconfiguration and process. The bizarre space of complex numbers is dedicated to Balema’s floor works of the last years and is the first solo exhibition of the artist in Switzerland. It proposes the floor as an open field in which relations and configurations are set up in the horizontal as a kind of anti-monumental plane, involving processes of frottage, scuffing, cutting, stitching, bending, tying together, linking, and releasing. Balema’s work situates form and form-making between intentionality and chance and involves a continued reworking of existing elements. 

Olga Balema (b. 1984 in Lviv, Ukraine) lives and works in New York.

The exhibition is curated by Kathrin Bentele, the new Artistic Director at Kunsthalle Friart Fribourg, and has been initiated by Nicolas Brulhart.