- 40 x 40 cm
- 2026
- Mixed Media: Tin cans, Swiss pine, felt, oil
In the wall installation Sollbruchstelle:Kohärenz by Vienna-based artist Colja Amare Liri, wood sculptures are visible in three tin cans: a vulva and a breast after top surgery. The third can is sealed. The can itself addresses society's rigid, normative construct. While the closed can embodies the silence surrounding taboo subjects, the two open cans create space for visibility. Continuing the artist's characteristic color aesthetic of red and blue, she creates intersectionality by deliberately refraining from realistic depictions of skin tones.
The QR code provides media access and unvarnishedly shows the drainage of blood and urine. This confrontation makes the taboo surrounding the menstruating body visible. The interaction of all three parts makes it clear that menstruation is not a purely white, cis-female issue. Social cohesion requires breaking down the predetermined breaking points within a normative society, enabled by the visibility of those trans, inter*, non-binary, and BIPoC individuals who are systematically marginalized in a homogeneous societal image.
