Marieta Ferber

Portrait of Artist
Illustration of a bench which has seats facing in opposite directions. Two people are sitting on the bench, one is looking at their phone and another is looking at a butterfly. A third person walks past with headphones looking at their phone.

About

With a background in design and architecture, Marieta Ferber’s research focuses on public and private spaces. Her work highlights the dualities within space: access and restriction, freedom and withholding. Its aesthetic conception is rooted in the observation of these spaces—streets, squares, institutions, houses—and the everyday objects contained within them. City facilities are objects we use daily; we touch them but do not see them. The work seeks to decontextualize these objects by changing their usual locations and materials to draw attention to them, challenging our perception of space and objects and questioning their use and our role in the places where we live.
Are we the owners of the space we live in? Yes, no?  Who owns it!? Does there need to be an owner? Can we truly be ourselves within this space? IIs it really a common space? Why are we forced to pay to be in it and move through it!? She calls this Spatial Politics.
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