Untitled, (Three Dear Friends)

Two panels for a rolling board, Vienna, 2005.

Presented in Vienna as part of EUROPART: contemporary art from Europe, curated by Walter Seidl and Ursula Maria Probst. Sarah Pierce picks up on a billboard created in 1992 by Felix Gozales-Torres in New York City that treats the issue of how our most intimate desires are 'intercepted' in the public sphere. Pierce restaged the photograph in her bedroom in Dublin based on her memory of the original work, and inserted her memory and the names of three of her girlfriends onto the rolling panels. The work permeates a public place with a personal, biographical feature.

The EUROPART exhibition was mounted on 400 rolling boards in Vienna and Salzburg (27 December 2005 - 30 January 2006) to mark the Austrian presidency of the EU Council.

In a cross-urban presentation platform using the medium of the rolling board, the art project EUROPART explores the explosion of interest in art and the boom of art in public spaces in recent decades. [...]EUROPART raises the question of whether the images generated by rolling boards actually help to shape urban reality in view of their technical possibilities and the subject matter they are allowed to display. In this context the project intends to investigate the elements of construction that have been formed by political ideas, and as a result, the structures of identity for a future Europe as well.

- Walter Seidl and Ursula Maria Probst, curators EUROPART.