More »builder« than sculptor, over the last ten years Séverine Hubard (*1977, Lille, F) has found a place for her approach in the heart of the urban setting. Falling within the province of photography, video and performance, her work mainly provokes a reflection on volume and space, at the crossroads between sculpture and architecture.

Séverine Hubard's creations have something purposefully makeshift about them, while in fact they are skillfully worked pieces. The material she chooses is not random: it refers back to the city and the materiality of its buildings, the preferred stomping ground of this artist »without a workshop«. Séverine Hubard's work, however, never limits itself to one single concrete approach since she is able to give the most banal elements new dimension: above and beyond their sometimes brute aspect, her pieces, a combination of poetry and humor, also subtly touch upon the notion of memory.

'Observe Right of Way' is a work developed in and for Langenhagen. Traffic routes mould our cities: approach paths, fast lanes, motorways, rail lines and tram lines - we perceive our cities in movement and from a distance. Buildings become facades, greenery becomes ornamentation on the city backdrop that presents itself as an image. Séverine Hubard records the local conditions, tangles them up, and stands them on their head.