Maria Loboda's Wordplay and Musical Sculptures at Galerie schleicher + lange

Maria Loboda's first solo exhibition at Galerie schleicher + lange in Paris, running from May 16 to July 30, 2009, transforms the gallery into a linguistic and musical landscape. The show is divided into two rooms: 'A Room as a Word' and 'A Room as a Song.' In the first, Loboda uses architectural elements and everyday objects to spell out 'of composition' through three-dimensional letters—a painted 't' on a wall, torn paper forming an 's,' a wooden slat as a 'c,' a column as a 'p,' and a stair railing turned into an 'm' with blankets. Three cigarette burns on a book page and an engraving of an angel serve as the only figurative elements. The second room evokes the materials of a harpsichord, with metal wires strung from floor to ceiling like a screen, and two seats—a wooden chair inspired by 1920s Cubist furniture and a felt pouf—facing each other, referencing the exhibition's title 'Conversational Style,' a phrase from Haydn's definition of chamber music. A faded blue wall closes the space, echoing Baudelaire's 'Correspondances.' Loboda, a Polish artist already recognized internationally, has previously used coded languages, such as 19th-century flower language for insults, and referenced the Bauhaus and Moholy-Nagy. The exhibition was reviewed by Anaël Pigeat in art press n°360.