Calling of...

Karla Zipfel examines the power of public appearances in her art. She takes buildings, everyday products, and media as symbols of social dynamics and distorts them in her works through the imitation of industrial surface aesthetics. The hybrid objects that emerge play with visual and thematic references, interconnecting them. Zipfel’s installations evoke commercial, domestic, or sacred contexts, challenging how the design of objects and spaces conveys societal norms.

The image shapes remind of clouds, combined with interface elements. They carry drawings of high-rise buildings, partyl precise, partly schematically executed. They merge postmodern skyscrapers from the financial sector with church towers. The little men attached onto them are 90s furniture handles, which seemingly climb towards the sky.