Choreographing making and meaning in hybrid ways, Noemi Niederhauser’s practice engages with the symbolics embedded into materials and artifacts in relation to time and history.
Using discourses of ethnography, history or archeology in an altered way, while extensively experimenting with materials; she enlarges details until they escape their initial state and become the starting point of entire micro orders of relational objects.
Her projects display cosmologies that slowly narrate a place and a time stepped in between reality, hypotheses and speculation. As a result, historical circumstances mingle with enigmatic legends to form new and ever evolving narratives. Dancing across the blurred boundaries between art, craft and design, the visual propositions she develops deal with the idea of perspective, enhanced vision and perception (both visual and historical). With the threat and corruption of «when» and «where from», Noemi Niederhauser interrogates the place of materials and artifacts as discourses of knowledge and cultural value.