Sissa Micheli is one of our local artists currently using a studio space offered by studios das weisse haus in Hofbauergasse 9, 1120 Vienna.
Sissa Micheli's works are essentially multifarious,and communicate in their multiple, epic layers of meaning. The seeable is always referential, acting as a narrative continuation, an additional reading, or pointing to one or more other versions of the story. The works indicate a deep curiosity on the part of the artist, an open astonishment related to the philosophical self-awe of the ancients, in the questioning of being. The known, the everyday, the existent is analysed and turned on its axis in order to examine its meaning and classification—always with seriousness, but especially with the desire to recount, to depict, or to form—with a hint of irony. The strategy is to expose and to veil (or disguise) in equal measures.
Sissa Micheli's work deals with the subject of film: props, lighting, sets, director's instructions, and shots from or for a possible film. But all of this only refers to a possible film: this, betrays the way in which Sissa Micheli departs from the genuine and directs her attention to the marginal, how she places those objects and situations that are normally used for the story, but then set aside, at the center of attention and arranges them in a mise en scène, how she takes the elements that usually are only considered part of the production process and places them center stage. The hierarchy has been turned upside down, the pre-requisites become the work itself. (…) Photography, film, installations: these make up Micheli's media trinity, they complement and saturate one another, testing the boundaries between them.
— Ruth Horak: Eikon#82, p.24-31.
Born in 1975 in Brunico. Lives and works in Vienna, Austria.
HD Video,16:9, black & white, 2 Min.