Oil – in its many mutable forms
– is a problematic resource and the foundation of our modern society. It is the basis of our global petroculture, permeates
our everyday world in complex ways, and its cultural shaping of society is widely unknown.
The
installation, Reflecting Oil Ð From Word to Substance, addresses crude oil‘s omnipresence, abstract conceptuality, and physical
presence. In its immediacy and simplicity, the installation questions our reality tied to crude oil and our role as petro-subjects.
Ernst Logar * Klagenfurt (AT), 1965, artist and cultural worker, lives in Vienna. He has been working with photography,
film, sculpture, and installations since 1995. In his work, he addresses existing power structures and historical, sociocultural,
and ecological phenomena.
www.reflectingoil.infowww.logar.co.at
