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                                                          Barbara Doser 
                                                           Sorry!,
                                                          2023 
                                                          Hot glue on
                                                          canvas,
                                                          figures made
                                                          of polymer
                                                          clay, playing
                                                          field 30 x 30
                                                          cm 
                                                           
                                                          Viewing the
                                                          game as a
                                                          metaphor for
                                                          the progress
                                                          of equality
                                                          between men
                                                          and women and
                                                          the breaking
                                                          out of
                                                          stereotypical
                                                          gender roles,
                                                          the characters
                                                          stand,
                                                          somewhat
                                                          perplexed, on
                                                          the board,
                                                          which has a
                                                          daring path
                                                          structure. 
                                                          Democratizing
                                                          gender
                                                          relations,
                                                          understood as
                                                          a moral and
                                                          ethical
                                                          demand, is
                                                          still just
                                                          beginning. The
                                                          rules of the
                                                          game need to
                                                          be changed. 
                                                           
                                                            
                                     
                                                           
                                                           
                                                            
                                                           
                                                           
                                                           
                                                                
                                                           
                                                 
                                                 
                                                Barbara Doser 
                                              coded fullness,
                                              2023 
                                              Wooden box with viewing
                                              glass, pattern sculpture
                                              made from hot glue 
                                               
                                              
                                   
                                   
                                    
                                 
                                       
                                       
                                      Barbara Doser 
                                    deposit, 2022 
                                    cured acrylic paint 
                                   
                                    The fact that acrylic paint becomes
                                    an object, even though acrylic paint
                                    is used for painting, that the paint
                                    is not applied flat on a canvas but
                                    protrudes into space, gives it an
                                    unforeseen dimensionality and
                                    physical presence. 
                                    It is an aggregate and meaning
                                    transformation. The medium of color
                                    with the property of transporting
                                    coded information itself becomes
                                    information as a hardened object. 
                                    A metaphor for the transformation of
                                    ideas and concepts into materialized
                                    works of art, a deposit, a valuable
                                    legacy. 
                                     
                                    
                        
                       
                       
                        
                       
                       
                        
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