Liminal Ghosts

Christiane Peschek | Solo Exhibition

Presented by Sanatorium

Opening October 19th

SANATORIUM is pleased to present Christiane Peschek’s first solo exhibition in the USA, Liminal Ghosts, from October 19 to November 25, 2023. The exhibition presents Peschek’s research on liminality in the context of physical and virtual spaces and bodies.

For her first solo exhibition in New York, Christiane Peschek examines our transitioning state, she stands in the threshold of reality and virtual as her physicality is in a state of suspense. Peschek’s artistic practice has a long history of treating virtuality as an extension of ourselves with its possibilities. She creates archives from images of the internet’s gendered bodies and retouches them to reclaim their once fluid existence. The ghost-like approach of her portraits transforms the identities into smoothened surfaces.

Liminal Ghosts is a series of portraits on fleece, oscillating around the topic of identity fatigue and the overstimulation of an internet driven society. DIANA’s space in New York City is transformed into a temple of identity crisis that invites visitors to worship a variety of identity transformations on the verge of human’s digital succession.

Christiane Peschek’s works are set in a phygital world of self-sacralization and fluid identity expansion. In images and multi-sensory spatial concepts, she creates dialogues marked by intimacy and self-idealization.

The observation of the body on both sides of the screen, between on- and offline identities are a consistent subject in her projects. Rituals, retreats, retouched images, scents, and sensual ethereal materials such as the deliberate use of Wi-fi radiation and low frequencies become hybrids of virtual transformation in a post-internet reality. Interacting with near-body technologies such as smartphones, she explores the “hyper-ego” by using the surface of touchscreens to create experiences at the intersection of technology and cosmology. Peschek’s work has been exhibited internationally in galleries and institutions including most recently Museum Marta Herford, Salzburger Kunstverein, Benaki Museum Athens and NRW Forum Düsseldorf. She has been awarded several international prizes including the UNSEEN Tesla Art Trail Award, the Emergentes DST Honorary Award and the BKA State Scholarship for Artistic Photography. Her work is in collections such as the ING DiBa Art Collection, Artothek des Bundes Belvedere21, Museum für Moderne Kunst Salzburg and Kupferstichkabinett Wien. She lives and works in the cloud.