"Memory Sculpture: Traktormensch" Drawing

Drawing as sculpting into oneself.

Encounter is central to Mersolis Schöne’s work. Drawing and film can become spaces for meeting, listening and thinking together – creating a poetic sphere in which something new and perhaps previously unimaginable can emerge.

His Memory Sculptures grow from a recurring vocabulary of signs and symbols. Each carries meaning, but every new constellation creates new relationships. The drawings can be read like poems: never exhausted by a single reading, they remain open to new connections each time we return to them.

Each Memory Sculpture is an invitation to encounter and mutual transformation. Drawing becomes both a thinking tool and a poetic object – a space in which thoughts, images, sounds and gestures can meet, affect one another and give rise to new connections. In this sense, drawing means shaping inward by opening outward.

Alongside drawing, Schöne develops an independent experimental film practice. At times both practices meet, as in the award-winning “Love – A Memory Sculpture” (2019), developed from an arts-based-philosophy residency in India.

Schöne lives and works in Vienna and has been a member of Künstlerhaus Wien since 2022.