Kirsten Pieroth
Untitled, 2007

Artist
Kirsten Pieroth

Title
Untitled

Year of creation
2007

Technology and dimensions
of the broom, size variable

Year of acquisition
2008

Acquisition of the foundation

Destabilizations of logic and order are in Kirsten Pieroth's artistic interests. By detaching everyday objects or situations from their original context and re-placing them in other environments, the Berlin-based artist creates irritation in the observer's perception. Since individual things can still be recognized through form or function, but can no longer be found in their usual perspective, they become open to new connections. In the work Untitled (2007), which shows a shredded broom that is placed in a heap in the gallery or museum, a banal object appears in a changed form and is thus brought into the viewer's consciousness. Several images come to mind: on the one hand, the broom appears imaginatively in its unchanged form before the art viewer's eye, but on the other hand, it can also allow the process of changing and deforming the object to take place. Pieroths turns the application of conventional and logical thinking into absurdity, as it does not provide tangible states of meaning and description, but rather sets in motion processes that need to be supplemented.

With the new look at everyday objects, they receive a new evaluation within the art world in which they are taken out of context and disempowered from their original function. The broom's lack of function becomes visible primarily through what is destroyed: it can no longer sweep, and worse: it itself becomes apparent waste through its deconstruction.