Schaf und Ruder / Wool and Water

Beschrijving

Tent. Düsseldorf, Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, 01-10-2016, 27-11-2016. - Groepstentoonstelling onderzoekt de toepassing en verbeelding van de spiegel in de hedendaagse kunst. Every day we ta­ke se­ver­al pro­lon­ged looks or flee­ting glan­ces in the mir­ror and ba­re­ly think about the me­di­um and its fa­sci­na­ting pro­per­ties and ap­p­li­ca­ti­ons: in­ver­ted, de­pic­ting, ima­gina­ry, spa­ti­al, re­flec­ting, trans­pa­rent, nar­cis­sis­tic, me­di­cal, etc. The 1871 book Through the Look­ing-Glass by Le­wis Car­roll leads us in­to the won­der­land, in­to the fa­sci­na­ting, sur­re­al world of dou­blings and re­flec­tions. The tit­le of the ex­hi­bi­ti­on is ta­ken from the fifth ch­ap­ter of the book. Against the back­ground of fic­tio­nal, ima­gina­ry space, and en­te­ring in­to the re­al space of the mu­se­um, va­rious ques­ti­ons open up that ha­ve to do wi­th our re­flec­tion and its in­ter­pre­ta­ti­ons, and ul­ti­mate­ly wi­th the self and self-con­scious­ness. The fa­sci­na­ti­on of the self in the vir­tu­al pic­to­ri­al space of the mir­ror re­veals ten­si­ons bet­ween the sub­ject and its en­vi­ron­ment. Be­gin­ning wi­th the gen­re of sculp­tu­re and its con­cre­te ma­te­ri­als, the works in the ex­hi­bi­ti­on re­flect re­la­ti­ons­hips bet­ween the in­di­vi­du­al and the world and al­low tan­gi­b­le in­ter­pre­ta­ti­ons.