The upheavals—that are still being felt today—in the art of the early modern period through to Minimal Art are evident in the work of Natalia Stachon: beyond mathematical three-dimensionality, space becomes sensation, as an interstice, as an atmospheric volume. The series Visions and Revisions shows institutions where society is ‘negotiated’—parliaments, universities, theaters and auditoriums. Stachon uses color not simply to represent a topographical realism but in order to showcase an artificiality of the spaces: All interiors are filled with a neon-colored, quite threatening blue light, which is broken sporadically by intensively beaming spectral colors. The line between fiction and reality is fluid. Without individual, acting subjects, the spaces are available, they are spaces of opportunity and possibility
Natalia Stachon
Visions and Revisions 13, 2019
