objects made from Serpentine, sizes varyingKIM (art in Madonnenschlössl), Madonnenschlössl, Bernstein / Am Schauplatz, Vienna, 2013

The symposion was taking place in Bernstein, a small village in rural Austria known for the Serpentine and its manufacturing to souvenir objects. During a two-week artist symposion Nino Sekhniashvili was creating everyday objects out of the leftovers of the local ornament and knick-knack production. Besides of knives and arrows - lithic tools, known as museum-pieces representing past eras of mankind, Nino Sekhniashvili was developing also more sophisticated tools: with a Dremel-machine she made sewing needles in a flask with a screw top, a thimble, several buttons, a comb, a cigarette holder and a schnapps glass as the last object. The objects were arranged like an archeological collection, following methods of presentation in museums. After that, the work was putting into question where everyday life ends and art begins, or, in succession, where art ends and the museum sets in.

Catrin Bolt and Edith Payer