Mathis Altmann (*1987, DE) Zürich

Mathis Altmann presents three sculptures as three microcosms, in which the current, world economical questions are concentrated. By means of recycled structures—shower or sink drains—he creates puppet houses without adornment, in which childhood dreams have given way to a subterranean, alarming emptiness. On an exterior section of the work a billboard promises investment and profit. Elsewhere the devil can be found under a red light, like the moraliser of our instincts. Mathis Altmann plays with variations of scale, the visible and the unseen and the richness of poverty, and in doing so he invents the archeological remains of a ruined society.