Mira Schendel

Mira Schendel at Tate Modern. These kind of works, ‘Graphic Objects’ (1968), ‘Still Waves of Probability’ (1969) and ‘Variants’ (1977), as well as some works by Hélio Oiticica or Damián Ortega, consider “how we exist in the world (‘Umwelt’ or environment), with the world (‘Mitwelt’ or social world) and within ourselves (‘Eigenwelt’ or inner world)”, as observers of the art object and as active participants of the being of the art work. However, because it is “in a museum” we can’t actively engage with them.