Sophie Tappeiner, Vienna

Irina Lotarevich

At Art-O-Rama, the gallery is pleased to present works by Irina Lotarevich. Lotarevich’s minimal, largely abstract metal sculptures emerge from the intersection of personal experience and broader societal structures, shaped by the physical and cultural frameworks of her environment. Her practice draws on the language of architecture, urban infrastructure, labor, and the human body to navigate the spaces between the individual and the collective.

Often employing forms such as boxes, cells, and containers, Lotarevich constructs modular systems that expand, contract, multiply, or fragment. Working with a varied palette of purchased and scavenged metals, she transforms these materials through techniques such as cutting, bending, welding, sanding, forging, and casting. The resulting sculptures combine formal clarity with subtle, tactile traces of physical labor, evoking the tension between rigid structural systems and the organic presence of the human body.

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