Agnes Scherer's 'Three Wicked Games' at Salzburger Kunstverein

Agnes Scherer's exhibition 'Three Wicked Games' at Salzburger Kunstverein reinterprets two Francisco Goya tapestry cartoons—'Blind Man's Bluff' (1789) and 'The Straw Manikin' (1791)—as ghostly puppet-theatre. Scherer quotes the compositions almost one-to-one but empties the figures of bodily fullness, reflecting a contemporary society she describes as 'undead': not dead because it keeps moving, not alive because movement alone is not life. The exhibition explores how power becomes ornamental under late capitalism, where agency is promised at the moment it is withdrawn. Curated by Mirela Baciak, the show was commissioned and produced by Salzburger Kunstverein.