Mint Melting Mouth
Plaster casting, acrylic varnish, 2022
Human lips emerge from the slowly melting letter “M”. The examination of language and its connection to the body appears repeatedly in Veronika Hauer’s work. The starting point for her research is the drawings from W.T. Crane’s illustration “An Animated Alphabet,” which appeared in Harper’s Monthly Magazine in 1861, as well as artist Tom Seidmann-Freud’s illustrations from her play primer “Hurray we read! Hurray, we write!” from 1932. The compilation of individual letters of the alphabet and their alliterations in connection with the human body is also evident in the three-part flag series for the letters “H”, “E” and “R” and can also be seen in < rotor >. “Her Mint Melting Mouth” – what would it speak to us about?
Installation shots from the exhibition: „Like an Open Door Leading Us Where We Would Never Have Consented to Go“, currently on view at rotor graz
Fotos: Thomas Raggam
