Hyperopia is a psychedelic two channel video installation that uses script, disorientating editing techniques, and immersive sound. A series of vignettes come together to create a contemporary fable encompassing claustrophobic relationships, the transmission of ego, delusion, escapism, healing and the search for connection.

Hyperopia at City Galerie Wien also features a new installation which includes aditional AV works, a collaged room divider, found objects and the paintings which feature in the film.

Ruth Angel Edwards (b1986 London) and Chloée Maugile (b1996 Santa Monica) are artists and friends who have been collaborating since 2021, making experimental films that use dark psychological script and humour alongside psychedelic filming techniques and sound. Their holistic and hands-on approach to making means that their process involves many different creative elements, with the artists taking on various roles at the different stages of production to form a responsive and generative way of story telling, image making and world building.

This installation includes elements of prints made for the film set by Waj Hussain and polaroid photos taken during the shoot by Joseph Campbell.



Hyperopia credits -

Actors: Kierston Wareing, Anthony Gopaul, Vanessa Walker, Gerhard Sanft, Alice Fraser, Hannah Taverner,  LC & Matio Austin – Dean.
Crew:  Nina Porter, Oscar Oldershaw, Joseph Campbell, Adam Gallagher & John Edwards.
Hair & Makeup:  Emillia Conroy & Bron Ready.
Music:  Stanislav Pain, Blightcaster, Angel D'Lite, Happy Mondays  & Ruth Angel Edwards.
Prints featured in set:   Waj Hussain 
Aditional thanks:  Lottie Lou, Harman Bains, John Bloomfield, Jack Wilson, Ruth Dorber, Chloe Page & Brian Elliot.  
Hyperopia was commissioned by Wysing Arts Centre, with additional funding from Arts Council England and The Elephant Trust.



This Exhibition could not have been possible without the help of

Nik Geene
Emmanuel Troy
Emmanuel Layr and Team
Marie Setz

Evan Jose, Spring Inclination, oil on wood panel,  82 x 94 cm, 2024


Evan Jose, Picture through Trees, oil on wood panel, 34 x 35 cm, 2024


Evan Jose, A Green Frame, A Courtyard, oil on wood panel, 165 x 165 cm, 2024


Evan Jose, Black Day, Stormy Night, oil on wood panel, 175 x 175 cm, 2023


Evan Jose, California Landscape, oil on woodpanel, 124 x 147 cm, 2023


Evan Jose, American Landscape Painting, oil on wood panel, 165 x 165 cm, 2023

Fabienne Audéoud, Should Absence Be Described? (black donkey), oil on canvas, 2024


Fabienne Audéoud, The Thinkers, epoxy clay, resin, oil paint, dimensions variable, 2017


Fabienne Audéoud, The Unspeakable, (White, English Version for Vienna), Secession Books, printed paper, 2024 

Fabienne Audéoud, The Thinkers, epoxy clay, resin, oil paint, dimensions variable, 2017

Fabienne Audéoud, The Thinkers #6, epoxy clay, resin, oil paint, dimensions variable, 2017

Fabienne Audéoud, The Thinkers #2, epoxy clay, resin, oil paint, dimensions variable, 2017

Fabienne Audéoud, The Thinkers #1, epoxy clay, resin, oil paint, dimensions variable, 2017


Fabienne Audéoud, Becoming the Best Version of Yourself (Or Not) (two black donkeys), oil on canvas, 2024


Fabienne Audéoud, The Thinkers #11, epoxy clay, resin, oil paint, dimensions variable, 2017


Fabienne Audéoud, The Unspeakable, (White, English Version for Vienna), Secession Books, printed paper, 2024


Fabienne Audéoud, The Risks Of Re-Essentialisation (black donkey), oil on canvas, 150 x 150 cm, 2024


Fabienne Audéoud, The Thinkers, epoxy clay, resin, oil paint, dimensions variable, 2017

Fabienne Audéoud, The Thinkers #9, epoxy clay, resin, oil paint, dimensions variable, 2017

Fabienne Audéoud, The Thinkers #8, epoxy clay, resin, oil paint, dimensions variable, 2017

Fabienne Audéoud, The Thinkers #12, epoxy clay, resin, oil paint, dimensions variable, 2017

The Thinkers


    We all know the sculptures of those tall geniuses, looking down on us from the architecture of cultural institutions and historic buildings. Audéoud modeled her own. out of self drying clay, oil paint and resin. they know all, they know nothing but most importantly they are constantly involved in big discussions with each other creating a concert of voices of know-it-alls and backseat drivers.

    At least they don't seem to be authoritarians standing on shelves not on prestigious architecture, no idealism is involved in their conversations. they are just some brainiacs talking in circles, claiming whilst being unsure.

    they are also inquisitive and dubious but just in the realm of how far they can go in their charlatanism. but hey, at least they are cute, not big, their feet standing on emptied and upside -down ice cream container plinths instead of museums, just mock-ups of the real danger - the modernist bronze.  

    The sculptures are on the same level as the Audóuds book installation. the several series of catalogues were discarded from Secession in Vienna and their covers were replaced. the titles are epistemological aphorisms. titles of books that one would like to read. since nobody will ever write these books or better - they are impossible to write - one is stuck with the conversation about possibility. no beginning - no end - no explanation. no author - no editor - no cynicism.

    Looming over the noise Audéoud „brown painting“ donkeys appear, dark, kind and soft - eyed.
They frame the „Thinkers“ and „Book“ series and one ultimately finds oneself also looked at by them and the uncanny feeling, that one is followed around by these imminent gods, prevails. They are not denouncing you since they are not political. you are not judged but what would you have to worry about? to be more clownish than the little Thinkers and their male mastery? not you! you are looking, you are not talking. you are not stubborn or stupid. you are becoming animal, becoming background, becoming cloud. you have nothing to worry about.

  „The Thinkers“ is Fabienne Audéouds first solo exhibition in Vienna.


  We want to thank

Secession for their generosity (thank you Albert) and the DRAC IDF 2017 grant that facilitated the production of the sculptures

Lila Torqueo, that facilitated us meeting and therefore launched this project

Nik Geene for the constant help and conversation

Helene Baur for her quick advice

The Costume Department
15.12.2023 – 28.01.2024

Hana Earles, Eternal Dream 1 Six Stones for Crossing the River, desk, LED strip lighting, fake flowers, real flowers, paint, vases, dimensions variable, 2023 


Billy Coulthurst, Execution of Emperor Maximilian with Bengal Cat’s Blind Eye, oil on linen, 150 x 150 cm, 2023



Billy Coulthurst, Leopard Print, oil on linen, 150 x 150 cm, 2023



1. Billy Coulthurst, Illustration of Bette Davis on a Red Stripe, oil on linen, 21 x 150 cm, 2023
2. Billy Coulthurst, La Paloma, Dove and Rose concealed, oil on linen, 130 x 150 cm, 2023


Hana Earles, Eternal Dream 2 Electra, desk, LED strip lighting, fakeflowers, real flowers, paint, vases, dimensions variable, 2023




Billy Coulthurst, Bette Davis and on Screen Lover Maximilian, oil on linen, 109 x 195 cm, 2023





Billy Coulthurst, Bunny, oil on canvas, 145 x 145 cm,  2023




Hana Earles, Eternal Dream 4 Earl Grey, desk, LED strip lighting, fakeflowers, real flowers, paint, vases, dimensions variable, 2023

1. Billy Coulthurst, Sash Print, oil on linen, 45 x 150 cm,  2023
2. Billy Coulthurst, Portait of Emperor Maximilian I of Mexico, oil on linen, 90 x 150 cm, 2023



Billy Coulthurst, Postcard of Bette Davis, 21 x 29 cm, oil on linen, 2023



Hana Earles, Eternal Dream 3 Cigarettes and Candy, desk, LED striplighting, fake flowers, real flowers, paint, vases, dimensions variable, 2023




1. Billy Coulthurst, Death Casket, oil on linen 65 x 84 cm, 2023
2. Billy Coulthurst, Habsburg Beauty, oil on linen, 65 x 84 cm, 2023






Something that  aligns with my…. interests 




A collection of paintings based on and around Austrian Duke Maximilian I, the last emperor of Mexico. The portraits are paired with leopard print and stripes. Hollywood actor Bette Davis embraces her lover.




Inspired by my recent trip to Mexico city,




Desks with vases and lights,




The paint, the canvas and the paintings fill the gallery.




An emperor who was tricked into ruling a country from a fake plebiscite is executed and then painted by Manet




Proposal to open a thrift store.

Withdraw about $30,000, with the rest I’ll put it towards the window. A small curated store is what everyone does. So without it being fast fashion, what if we encourage large donations, piles of stuff, still sustainable, but heaping! Maybe we could even try and install a conveyor belt:) 

It's so cute, filled with objects discarded and donated. Our op shop opens. Ideally it’s a shop with beautiful glass windows and it’s location on a corner. It's a treasure hunt of things. I am looking forward to doing the displays. A treasure hunt store. Fabric here and there. Half used makeup products hint that weekly visitors use the store as a vanity. There’s a vignette of warmth from the oil heaters




I love finding vintage christmas stuff.

Last christmas I found




It’s definitely more about having a lot of stuff.




Not in an unethical way and definitely low carbon emissions hopefully.




Not like antiquing though. Like when you sort through different people to find your forever person. Like what if it was like that, like life, but we made life in the window, we will have probably about $0,000 for the window. 




Something I worry about a lot?  Definitely money, my health and fertility.




The donation bins will be…. Something neutral…. Beige or maybe light grey

I hopefully get some cool stuff from the early 2000’s like a linen pink polo shirt and a livestrong bracelet. Or something really rare like a deck of cards from the 1910’s or something.




Where does the stuff come from?

Estates, people who died, divorced, moved, harvest season.

Half Bianca
25.10.– 10.12.2023

James Sturkey, “Single Riders”, plaster, paint, 2023


James Sturkey, “Untitled”, pen and tipp-ex on paper, 2018


James Sturkey, “Camping”, pen and tipp-ex on paper, 2020


James Sturkey, “Untitled”, pen and tipp-ex on paper, 2018

James Sturkey, “lemongrass”, pen, tipp-ex and paint on paper, 2022


James Sturkey, “Panoramabad”, oil on canvas, 2022

Juliet Carpenter, “Wide Shot”, live video feed on baby monitor, 2023

Juliet Carpenter, “Dizzy”, analogue photo on paper, 2023

James Sturkey, “Complex”, pen and tipp-ex on paper, 2020

Juliet Carpenter, “Mid Shot”, live video feed on baby monitor, 2023

Juliet Carpenter, “Antonia”, pigment print on paper on dibond, live video feed on baby monitor, 2023

James Sturkey, “Untitled”, pen and tipp-ex on paper, 2018

James Sturkey, “Panoramabad”, oil on canvas, 2022

James Sturkey, “No Sweat on the Wood”, pen and tipp-ex on paper, 2022

James Sturkey, “Mezzanine”, pen and tipp-ex on paper, 2023

Juliet Carpenter, “Close Shot (Sweet like Mummy)”, live video feed on baby monitor, 2023

James Sturkey, “Lavender”, pen, tipp-ex and paint on paper, 2022


James Sturkey, “Rush”, pen and tipp-ex on paper, 2023