Working at the formal and material intersection of photography and sculpture, Bettina Pousttchi ex- plores the connection between systems of time and space in a global perspective.
For her most recent series Bettina Pousttchi works with commonly found, functional street furniture used in cities around the world. Street bollards, bi- cycle racks, and, in her latest series, tree protection barriers are the starting point for her sculptures presented in this exhibition, which are shaped by means of mechanical bending, pressing and twisting.
This process leaves their original function behind and makes them a witness to an event that we ine- vitably associate with our own experience in urban space. The tree protection barriers are recogniz- able in their altered form, and the forces that might have affected the object can be reconstructed. Through the context of their use, Pousttchi‘s sculp- tures have a strong anthropological connection. In their sequence they evoke the movement of dancers, although the volume of the sculpture results entirely from the line. The moss or light green color is remi- niscent of camouflage or protective coloring, thus enhancing the optical merger of the individual parts into a self-contained form.
