The walls through which we breathe
The skin through which we see
The ground through which we sense
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Or; the relationship between object, space and time
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Or; Je danse, donc je suis
(2022)
Kindl – Zentrum für zeitgenössische Kunst
Part of the exhibition Landscapes of belonging curated by Kathrin Becker and Christine Nippe.
The work consists of three sculptures and three texts.
I was invited to the exhibition Landscapes of Belonging, curated by Kathrin Becker and Christine Nippe at KINDL in Berlin. I had saved the wall from when we needed to rebuild the back of our 100-year-old house in Västra Ämtervik. Logs with annual rings so dense that they were difficult to distinguish, logs you can no longer find in hardware stores. At the same time, in the basement of the house we lived in Wedding (West Berlin) I had found a piece of the house wall from someone’s renovation, airy lightweight plaster. The house where my husband had his studio in Prenzlauer berg (East Berlin) and with which I shared our last months in Berlin, was originally listed as a cultural monument, but one day a fire destroyed large parts of the building and made it ”a danger to the public” which led to a, for the owner, long-awaited decision about demolition - then this land could also be gentrified. The house walls became the starting point for the work - place is both the base and the limitation for how we perceive the world.
Sillegården 126, 68695 Västra Ämtervik
• Piece of the wall at Sillegården 126
• Wool
• Cardboard
• Bark
• Rope
• Steel
• Woodchips
• Soil
Genter Straße 12,13353 Berlin
• Piece of the wall at Genter Straße 12
• Different types of fabric found at a construction site
• Flower
• Plastic flower
• Rope
• Steel
Greifswalder Straße 9, 10405 Berlin
• Piece of the wall at Greifswalder Straße 9
• Paper covering the floor at Greifswalder Straße 9
• Facemask, piece of a tent, and a wire found on my way to the studio
• Plastic mesh found on construction site
• My hair
• Steel
Is it a star, is it a sun, is it a rose?