Judith Fegerl
Skip to content
  • works with structures
  • objects
  • drawings
  • |
  • text
  • cv
  • contact
  • en
  • |
  • de
  • Foto: Eugen Koller, Museumsquartier Wien, 2023habaï ne sï natena, se paï tanïmena
  • JF-solar-installview-9#-bmkoessolar series of electric shocks
  • JF-lastlight-2021_weblast light
  • DSCF6453sunset
  • Foto: Kunsthalle Wien, Hysterical Mining, 2019, Jorit Austthe kitchen
  • Detailmoment
  • _DSF5518_webbeads
  • Spiegelnde Fenster, 21er Haus, 2017bind link mend tie join merge connect patch knit lock adhere hold attach
  • IMG_3985untitled (bonze casts of tout springs)
  • _DSF5576_webbatch
  • DSC_0307 abstill
  • current reconstruction, Galerie Winter, 2012travelling but no current
  • DSC02143_webreservoir
  • Lazy Eight, 2011, Foto: Anja Hitzenbergerlazy eight
  • 1encapsul
  • DSC02600_webI transcend encapsulation
  • Incubator, 2010Incubator
  • revers1revers
  • OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERAgalatean heritage
  • DSC00020_1-webamnion
  • tension01tension object
  • nest02-smallprélèvement de flux
  • memory02_webread only memory
  • Mag Fegerl Atemporal deflector
  • fegerl03_webconstrained eternity
  • metronom final03_webmetronom
  • avian-picnightingale
  <        >  
Spiegelnde Fenster, 21er Haus, 2017 Spiegelnde Fenster, 21er Haus, 2017 Spiegelnde Fenster, 21er Haus, 2017 non-specific charged ones, Galerie Winter, 2016 Fundaziun Nairs, 2017

bind link mend tie join merge connect patch knit lock adhere hold attach



210 x 300cm, 175 fixtures, 300m copper wire

copper wire, soldered together into one long string,
wall-mounted with hand-made porcellain fixtures

Under the term “connection,” the dictionary names as an example of the meaning “cohesion, link” the production of a connection between two wires by soldering—which is precisely what lies at the heart of the work bind link mend tie join merge connect patch knit lock adhere hold attach by Judith Fegerl: A copper wire runs vertically through two rows of wall-mounted ceramic brackets, the distance between which defines the height of the work and the number of which determines its width. The end of one copper wire is soldered to the next, so that in the finished installation—always arranged around a corner—a continuous wire runs through all the brackets like a warp in weaving. The minimal aesthetics and material fragility in combination with the descriptive title inevitably draw our attention to the process of doing, to the fact that the work only emerges during its installation with the aid of a specific means of connecting its elements and is reduced back to those elements after an exhibition. That this is a thermal process is just as characteristic of Fegerl’s artistic practice as the choice of materials, bearing in mind she is interested in precisely those intersections that cause an overlap between physics and the physical, technology and aesthetics.
Text: Luisa Ziaja, Specular Windows, 21er Haus, 2017