Ricarda Roggan | attika

As a hoard of collection and concentration the spaces by Ricarda Roggan exist between worlds. Her attics are empty and abandoned in state of dawn, between day and night. They appear naked and disclose their construction. In Switzerland the title „ATTIKA" characterizes the top floor - and also the pattern of the word hints at the structure of the beams that set up the truss. In her bygone bodywork the artist has uncovered a substance from deposits of history. It used to be worthless objects and furniture, which Ricarda Roggan merged into assemblage and interiors and added an own reality as witnesses of the past. Real and staged situation were joined together. ATTIKA is also a place of these deposits of the past. Despite the emptiness one will find traces and blurrings of a common past. The substance can be discovered in the spaces themselves. Ricarda Roggan betook herself of searching these places in Cottbus and Dresden and left the safety of the artist's studio. She actualized the attics as personal images, which offers the beholder to be immersed in a dusty, dawn and slightly mysterious foretime. Ricarda Roggan's execution between document/report and construction, reality and production is continued in ATTIKA in a very subtle manner. Biografie Ricarda Roggan biography 1972 geboren in Dresden born in Dresden, Germany

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