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Nina Schuiki's wax ring encloses the angled column, embracing the historical stone architecture with a soft material. In a playful and profound way, the ring clings to the weighty space as if it had just been tossed over the column as in a children's game. The wax is poured on site by the artist on the stone floor directly around the column, like an endless candle with neither a beginning nor an end. At the same time, the wick embedded inside the candle becomes functionless, missing the possibility to be lit and therefore only opening up as a point of reflection. Meaningfulness and infinitude flicker between the transcience of things and the temporality of place, adding another layer of symbolism to the artist's site-conditioned gesture. (...)

Excerpt from the text In the space between Julia Katharina Thiemann, 2017