Kira Streletzki proudly presents Emilia Auersperg’s inaugural solo exhibition, Portals.

29th of April, 2023, in Berlin.

Ziegrastrasse 1

122057 Berlin

Born in 1999, Auersperg is an emerging artist completing her degree in Fine Art 3D at Central Saint Martins, London. Auersperg’s practice unleashes ulterior lives into an extensive collection of domestic objects she has meticulously gathered from discarded sources. Using processing techniques to perform a ceremonious remoulding, Auersperg re-introduces the matter as various unworldly and fantastical forms - an apparent revolt against these objects' history and previous use.

A central concern for Auersperg is to evoke compassion for discarded items replaced with something new and shiny. Her sculptures of ‘loyal’ objects, such as disposable domestic tools and containers, crucially lean into the allure of everyday items and challenge us to reconsider our relationship with what we own. The artist also employs humour and absurdity to address politically charged subjects and disrupt consumption-driven culture's functional aspects. The resulting work invites viewers to consider the afterlife of discarded objects and the potential for their transformation.

Employing an interaction of animate and non-animate species and the transitional spaces between object and subject, the portals into intangible space unearth microscopic provinces hosting these inhabitants. Auersperg spills the boundaries of object identity and ruptures hierarchies beholden by historically and socially driven object dependencies. Auersperg then fragments this human desire for object performance by allowing each sculpture and painting to stage an afterlife environment, beholding a space for untold object futures. Her methods of play and humour invite us to consider continuous cycles of assemblage and enlivening mastered by the natural world.

Text written by Victoria Ashthorpe