PERSONAL STRUCTURES

Helga Palasser, sculptress based in Austria, focuses in her work on intercultural exchange, peace, and femininity. The materials she works with are as diverse as the forms her art takes. Experimentation with form and material stands in the centre of her creation. Combining light material like paper with heavy clay reminds of collage technique. Likewise, classical one-block stone or wood sculptures are among her works. Her sculptures impress by the fine and dynamic movement they capture, always searching to enter into a dialog with their spectator and environment.

Helga’s intercultural sculpting project Stone Diary led her to Zimbabwe and to Nepal. In Nepal she realized a sculpture as contribution to the foundation of a peace centre in a former civil war region. The experience of travelling to many different places in the world and sculpting there reflects in her most recent work: a language to express how people and world can live together peacefully is tried to anticipate in its basic outlines; a source of inspiration for a peaceful living together is tried to be created here – always searching for alternative models too grasp, understand and conceptualize “world”.