Ilona Plaum - Presence

Work that shakes up your perception

Plaum connects her three-dimensional models, painted representations and the photographic flat surface with each other in illusions. In these illusions she uses the rules of paradox: she alternates between surface and depth perception and makes the background the foreground; shadows become tangible and seem to move. Plaum thus takes the viewer from invented to existing spaces and vice versa. Through deliberate imperfections that are visible in the work, it becomes clear that the elements are made by hand. For a moment this takes the viewer back to the starting point of the work, the moment it was made by the artist.