photo Simon Beckmann
Joya: AiR / Hannah Parr + Linus Maurmann / ENG + CHE
“We came to Joya: AiR to work specifically on a new video work. With reference to a dream, themes of consciousness, comfort, empathy, hard and soft powers, healing and nature, the story unties the restorative powers associated with hair and pine trees. The film unveils the potentials and paradoxes of the dream world, takes the role of seeing and observing as a vital part of world-making, and draws on sensation-based perception to engage with our natural surroundings.
The immediate land surrounding the house was more beautiful than anticipated, which made for ten days and nights of intensive filming. Nevertheless, working uninterrupted and intimately with the land that houses the residency was an immense pleasure”.
Hannah Parr (b. 1984, UK) is a Swiss-based artist. Her experimental practice in object art, design, sculpture, and installation questions formalism, social structures, consumer culture and addresses social survival and transformation strategies. Her works are based on specific self-developed working processes; for years, she has been collecting and sort-ing materials, typically from domestic or manufactured sources. Transforming ‘object’ to subject through the process of re-categorisation, displacement, and isolation, she speculates within a relative realm, where subtle interventions and quiet humour reaffirm the intellectual, virtuous, and emotional potential of materials, recovering their capacity as tools for critical analysis.
Linus Maurmann (b. 1997, Zuirch, CH) is an independent industrial designer. Trained as a carpenter and educated in industrial design at Zurich’s University of the Arts. His process-based practice relies on a close collaboration with artists and is often based on his interests in alpine sports and music. His design approach is driven by exploration and experimentation with materials, form and production methods, emphasizing the haptic qualities of production through materials.