Lucia Dellefant

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Visioning, lounge chair landscape, 2007, spray coated steel and PVC tubes, purchased 2007

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Time and again the projects of Lucia Dellefant (b. 1965 in Munich) focus on the issue of identity. Her works are best regarded as "frames" for situations of reflected experience that challenge the viewer's own position with regard to reflection stimuli, ultimately providing him with the impetus to act individually. With her works Dellefant questions the viewer’s individual understanding of identity beyond superficial images that are suggested to all of us by the colorful world of consumption and mass media.

Similar to her project "live-design", "visioning - meeting your vision" is also a lounge chair and seating landscape. Created especially for Osram, "visioning" is a modular, additive installation that is composed of several easy to use seating and lounge chair elements, which are set up on the grounds of Osram's headquarters. As a place of retreat and relaxation, “visioning” provides its users with the opportunity to reflect on their own desires and goals, thereby developing new images and behavior patterns.

In the midst of daily business activities, Dellefant's seating realm offers employees and visitors a brief break - suddenly it is an issue of authentic, individual visions. The overlapping of various art forms, the understanding of a work as a process – in the sense of its being open-ended - something for which the viewer, or better yet the public, becomes a permanent fixture and collaborator in the work, is what characterizes Lucia Dellefant's creations. For this reason many of the artist’s works cannot be understood by using a classical concept of what a work is.

Nonetheless, both her paintings and her seating landscape installations, as well as her works from the series, society-signs (www.dellefant.de), convey, as individual images and objects, strong, formal impressions. This effect becomes all the more intriguing when these works are understood as part of a far more comprehensive and interactive relationship; it is this moment of such reciprocal action that is a central feature of Dellefant's work.