Mastering Disaster – Nature and Fiction
Exhibtion 8.-16.3.2025
Villa Legodi
Artist Residency 10.2.-10.3. 2025
Nirox Art Foundation

Mastering Disaster – Nature and Fiction, is largely driven by Dempf’s fascination with the cultural histories of metaphysical protection of the human body and its environment, and how this universal need for preservation translates into physical objects. The consideration of materials within Dempf’s practice seeks to urge a haptic experience with the viewer, in which her amulets, necklaces, pendants, brooches, rings, and sculptural objects embed her practice within the histories of artisans and crafts-workers, and the legacies of knowledge in working largely by hand.
The exhibition consists of works created during Dempf’s residency, alongside selected jewellery from her studio collection in Berlin. Accompanying these sculptural forms is a series of twenty photographs of spiritual spheres taken worldwide by Dempf over the last two decades.
A video on jewellery and dance, directed by Brazilian dancer, choreographer and artistic director Cristina Perera, serves as a culminating point for the exhibition.
Tristin, Roland, Curator Nirox

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