Our garden fence, 2018

Suchart Wannaset

Wannaset installs an oversized garden fence that incorporates the surroundings outside the sculpture park. The roof of a typical detached house protrudes from behind the wall of the park, appearing strangely small, almost sunken, due to the oversized fence. The supposedly inviting gesture of a suburban home collides with the impression of an insurmountable and seemingly dangerous barrier. Wannaset raises the question of the meaning of community and inclusion in times when the politically propagated need for security is aimed at isolation and exclusion. 

An oversized garden fence that incorporates the surroundings outside the sculpture park. The roof of a typical detached house protrudes from behind the wall of the park, appearing strangely small, almost sunken, due to the oversized fence. An oversized garden fence that incorporates the surroundings outside the sculpture park. The roof of a typical detached house protrudes from behind the wall of the park, appearing strangely small, almost sunken, due to the oversized fence.

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Author

Elisabeth Fiedler, Kurztext adaptiert von Lisa Schantl und Lukas Sperlich 

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Owner

Suchart Wannaset

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About the sculpture

Wannaset approaches to work at the landscaped wall that surrounds the park. In order to simulate a source of error that disrupts the general sense of order, he places an oversized white fence in front of a small section, the individual slats of which are dangerously pointed at the upper ends. Behind it, the pointed roof of a detached house is visible. Aesthetic questions are addressed here as well as political ones. Questions such as "What is a fence?", "What is art?", "Who separates themselves from whom and why?", "What meaning is created or questioned here?", "What does community, inclusion, exclusion or isolation mean? ", "Who turns away from whom and for what purpose?" become evident in the exaggeration and partial focus on the idea of demarcation and interruption, which is also reflected in the water of the pond and thus becomes a picture puzzle, the predetermined lapidary becomes a pointed theme.

The work was created as part of the Artist-in-Residence program 2018.