Pascal Schwaighofer

        
Visual Artist
Postdoctoral Fellow at Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, McGill University, Canada
Ph.D. in Comparative Literature, Cornell University
Mellon Graduate Fellow, Society for the Humanities, Cornell University (2022-23)

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Pollen People, 2018
Potatoes, guache, book, wood.
Dimensions variable

Exhibition view: Kunstmuseum Olten, 2018


Starting from Waldemar Bonsel’s controversial BildungsromanThe Adventures of Maya the Bee, the work draws together and explore the novel’s main character, the “bee metaphor”, and the notion of labor.

The artwork consist of a large-sized sleeping Maya printed on the museum’s wall by means of the potatoes printing technique. The used cut and carved potatoes are arranged on the floor.

The artwork has been commissioned by the Kunstmuseum Olten,  Switzerland in occasion of the centenary of the
1918 Swiss General Strike.