In her installation tacit, Lisa Reiter explores what remains unspoken – what is seemingly taken for granted. „tacit“ describes something silently understood: rules or norms that are assumed or accepted without ever being articulated.
Drawing on the spheres between public and private space, Reiter turns her attention to questions of belonging, access and control: Who can move freely, what separates public from private, and what role do social differences play? Grids, fences and architectural elements of barrier feature in her research alongside found objects and ornaments from the urban landscape, which she translates – in the tradition of decorative paste paper making – into paper structures using paste paper.
The show is accompanied by a text by Lauren Nickou:
How you frame something will tell the story of its story.
Her warm brown woolen coat that I hide under to protect me from the cold air.
The air that sends the moths in when the flowers bloom in spring.
They ride on it like waves.
Tiny weave of mesh against tiny wings.
She could hear their wings hitting, hitting against the screen.
Moths made her cry many times, when they came to feast.
The tiny holes.
The brown wool, the pink, the blue.
The room where they sleep has a window in it.
The window has a screen to keep out the moths who come at night to find their light.
Outside the window is a garden and outside the garden is a gate.
Is there a fountain or not?
Are there birds splashing in it or not?
The shoes that wait to be worn for the garden.
Roses are still wrapped for winter, like gifts.
Wrapped and tied, open the gifts.
What color will they bloom?
Red.
She opens up the coat to let herself inside.
She waits there, away from the wind.
Scratching into the earth she draws her garden, the shapes of the beds, the tiny plants.
In springtime with the cold thin layer of snow over grass, tiny flowers, weeds not yet born.
How does one become a rose and the other a weed?
So we should not fight with weeds when we are roses.
She hides me under her brown woolen coat.
The screen of tiny holes. How one set of holes can prevent the other.
(Lauren Nickou for Lisa Reiter tacit, April 2026)
Solo exhibition: Lisa Reiter – tacit
Exhibition duration: 18.4. – 15.5.2026
Address and contact:
Puuul Space
Stolzenthalergasse 6/1A, 1080 Vienna
www.puuul.space
Lisa Reiter – www.lisareiter.com, www.instagram.com/lisareiter_____/