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Roman Signer is a Swiss artist born in 1938 who works across sculpture, installation, and performance, often employing everyday materials and simple mechanical systems to create works of subtle humor and formal precision. His practice emerged in the postwar period and frequently involves water, light, or sound in carefully calibrated interventions that occupy the space between art object and demonstration. Signer's work operates without grandiose gesture, instead presenting modest materials and humble actions as sufficient vehicles for conceptual inquiry.

St. Gallen, Switzerland