Fischer Saskia
Saskia Fischer’s interdisciplinary practice is characterized by artistic research within queer-feminist discourses, architectural theory and the contestation of a binary concept of nature. Saskia studied fine art at Goldsmiths, University of London (2018), photography at Folkwang University of the Arts in Essen (2015), and attended courses in glass art and sculpture and installation at Estonian Academy of Arts (2014).
Saskia’s research is concerned with the paradigms that form and inform landscape as a reflection of cultural and social values. She examines the ways Western understanding separates anthropological urbanity from a colonial concept of nature, reinforcing problematic notions of femininity and what is ‘natural’. Her working motifs draw on transitory architectures and the fabricated barrier between nature and the commons. This interdisciplinary practice is expressed through photographs and installations synthesizing diverse media blending materials and motives from architecture, mobility, urban planning, landscape design, horticulture, gender studies and art history.
Lights, 2022
Glass work by Ferran Collado, exhibition views by Laurynas Skeisgiela, apiece Gallery, Vilnius, Lithuania.
État, 2018
Glass work by John Moran, Gent Glas. Goldsmiths, London, UK.
The City is a Forest, 2019 – 2021
Essay, published in Desired Landscapes, edited by Natassa Pappa. Athens, 2022. Photograph by Giorgos Vitsaropoulo.
Violets, 2021
UV-print on aluminium, stainless steel, concrete, 200 x 120 x 140 cm each. Commissioned by Institut français and MWK Baden-Württemberg for Current Festival, Berliner Platz, Stuttgart.
Colors, 2012-2014
Variable dimensions and materials, exhibition view by Lukas Langgut, BLICKБЛИК, Manifesta 10 Parallel Program, Taiga Art Space, St. Petersburg, Russia.