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Stefanie Haller lives and works in Frankfurt am Main as a digital and analogue sculptor. Her practice investigates patriarchal structures of power and the narratives that sustain them, seeking to displace and renegotiate their terms.
In UNDER DECONSTRUCTION, Haller turns to canonical works of Western sculpture: Bernini’s Daphne and Apollo, Giambologna’s Rape of the Sabine Women, and Jerichau’s The Slave are among the archetypes she identifies as embedded expressions of rape culture, encoded within the tradition as high art. Using 3D animation and 3D printing, she deconstructs these motifs and transforms them into works that speak of female self-empowerment and restorative justice – among them the installation Glypto Amok.
Her ceramic works address the female body, trauma, and beauty norms. The series Übergriffe and the installation Heile Welt engage directly with sexualised violence and incest. By pressing into the clay from behind and reworking the surface, Haller gives visible form to acts that are often rendered invisible.
The exhibition makes clear that the same hands are capable of breaking and smoothing, destroying and repairing. In working with material, a process of confronting traumatic experience becomes visible – and with it, a path toward healing.
