In her current artistic practice, Hanna Stiegeler explores a wide range of structures of support. Her investigations span physical supports such as railings, prostheses, and architectural elements including columns and scaffoldings, as well as fashionable devices like crinolines and high heels. She also considers everyday technologies such as baby monitors. Through these motifs, Stiegeler examines which systems support and stabalise us in everyday life, in caring relationships, in networks, and in precarious artistic labour.
In the Freiburg exhibition, her first to address this topic, Hanna Stiegeler turns her attention to prostheses and technical bodily extensions. Under the title Ext. I, short for extension, she presents eight largeformat prints alongside three aluminium objects. The works take prostheses as their point of departure: tangible, functional aids to the body. Through her artistic practice, Stiegeler expands these objects beyond their practical purpose, translating them into a metaphorical and structural register. In doing so, she reads prostheses as systems of support through which broader questions of dependency, stability, and care can be explored.