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On the occasion of Zurich Art Weekend 2025, Galerie Oskar Weiss is delighted to announce a thrilling new exhibition by Argentinian artist, Victoria Colmegna.
La Girl Guide Hut takes its name from a Girl Guide’s hut in rural Scotland used by psychoanalyst Melanie Klein during the 1940s as a consulting room for child patients. In this hut, Klein advanced her Play Technique, treating children’s play as a direct expression of the unconscious. A child’s psychic life was structured visually, Klein believed, rather than linguistically, as in adults. The “la” in La Girl Guide Hut is the Spanish definite article—“the”—artist Colmegna’s first language. For her, there is only one Girl Guide hut: this mythic chamber, part psychoanalytical backstage, part childhood clubhouse. Both a site of early psychic decoding and a headquarters for would-be girl leaders aged 5-17.
Colmegna’s installation of the same name consists of used dollhouses. She describes them as “depicting anonymous plots, decorative…
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On the occasion of Zurich Art Weekend 2025, Galerie Oskar Weiss is delighted to announce a thrilling new exhibition by Argentinian artist, Victoria Colmegna.
La Girl Guide Hut takes its name from a Girl Guide’s hut in rural Scotland used by psychoanalyst Melanie Klein during the 1940s as a consulting room for child patients. In this hut, Klein advanced her Play Technique, treating children’s play as a direct expression of the unconscious. A child’s psychic life was structured visually, Klein believed, rather than linguistically, as in adults. The “la” in La Girl Guide Hut is the Spanish definite article—“the”—artist Colmegna’s first language. For her, there is only one Girl Guide hut: this mythic chamber, part psychoanalytical backstage, part childhood clubhouse. Both a site of early psychic decoding and a headquarters for would-be girl leaders aged 5-17.
Colmegna’s installation of the same name consists of used dollhouses. She describes them as “depicting anonymous plots, decorative…
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