David Fesl: Performance

People settled in a landscape gradually look at a group of objects... The site-specific performance defined a space for the participants to simply look at the objects and thus return them to our consciousness in their material form. The creative process, which was the focus of the symposium’s Mediation program section, is understood by Fesl as a form of technology that allows us to expand our knowledge of the world and that, among other things, allows us to reach a state of meaningfulness through the acceptance of paradox.

David Fesl is a visual artist currently working with found objects, space and live events. His carefully assembled objects are interwoven by a system of perceived attractions and tensions that involve form and texture as well as colour. Through minimal acts of arranging, turning and threading, the natural and the artificial come together in structures that take on an almost organic inevitability. Fesl installs his works in a similarly deliberate spirit, making the surrounding space part of the whole installation. He also deals with the communication between the artwork and its environment from the position of an exhibition architect.