Kyra Tabea Balderer

CARAVAN 3/2015

exhibition series for young art, Aargauer Kunsthaus, Aarau August 30 – November 15, 2015
curated by Nicole Rampa
photos: René Rötheli, Baden

Kyra Tabea Balderer (*1984) created abstract visual worlds by combining sculpture, painting, and photography. Using simple leftover materials—primarily cardboard and scrap wood—she built, painted, and carefully staged arrangements in front of a large-format camera. Her choice of materials reflects an interest in impermanence, in which meaning emerged not from inherent value but through relational context and transformation.

The staged constructions highlighted the tension between physical forms and their photographic representation. In the photographs, the works appear both as real objects and as visual illusions. Overlapping layers of material and color make the images difficult to read at first glance. Balderer’s work thus functioned as an open field of interpretation, inviting reflection on how perception, representation, and meaning are continually assembled rather than given.

CARAVAN was an exhibition series at the Aargauer Kunsthaus that invited emerging Swiss artists to present site-specific interventions. Each exhibition was accompanied by a published booklet.