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“(…) Born in Hamburg, grown up in Vienna, from the start Fabian Vogler was looking beyond Northern Germany. This perspective has remained characteristic in him; he would otherwise not have chosen Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Flensburg, Vienna as well as London as places for his education.His studies in Vienna with Gerda Fassel and Monika Verhoeven are considered as a central part of his training. His apprenticeship, however, in wooden sculpture in Flensburg (since Sauermann traditional) has also made an essential contribution.

In 2007, motivated by diverse support, the young sculptor, just thirty years old, settled down in the remote North Frisian village of Bargum. Here he has his studio in a spacious former school. His frequent participation in international exhibitions and international commissions reveals how right his decision has been. Vogler’s intensive work in the countryside where he finds his inspiration is ideally connected with the cosmopolitan world of art. (…)” DR. THOMAS GÄDEKE | LANDESMUSEUM SCHLESWIG-HOLSTEIN • SCHLESWIG

Limbo Weeks is a Matryoshka doll puppet of a film. Layers inside layers, mothers hidden inside mothers, giving birth to even younger mothers, the sculptural themes are like interwoven skins of a slowly peeling onion. Bianca Kennedy stages the plaster and bronze figures of sculptor Fabian Vogler inside intricately detailed miniature sets, depicting a very peculiar state of human development: The short time frame of seven weeks, where nature hasn’t decided on a specific gender for its fetus yet. In this state of blissful limbo the characters try to influence their own destiny through changing the water temperature of the bathing mother or playing with the wheel of evolutionary fortune. Several feti’s journeys are being depicted, as they fight their way out of wombs, lose themselves in ritualistic dances and finally shed their golden skin, before reattaching to the severed navel string. Limbo Weeks combines colorful handmade rooms and unique sculptures with ambiguous genders, illuminating the fact, that everybody is the result of cosmic coincidence and fate.