A conversation between writer, curator and director SLOW RESEARCH LAB Carolyn F. Strauss and artist Margret Wibmer. Published in April 2026.
An exploration of the multifaceted artistic practice of Margret Wibmer, whose work—spanning sculpture, video, photography, and participatory performance—facilitates dynamic, generative relationships between bodies, objects, and spaces. Powerful carriers of both presence and absence, the physically tangible and the unquantifiable, her artworks challenge perceptual and experiential frameworks—inviting us instead to inhabit alternative realities in which objects become subjects, temporalities intertwine, and bodies expand to reveal new forms and intelligence(s). In this wide-ranging conversation, Margret describes her strategies for disorienting the gaze, re-enlivening machine artifacts, and centering love as “a transformative force in a polarized world.”
Image: detail of ‘Salon d’Amour’ mask by Margret Wibmer. Photo by Anastasia Nefedova