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[23. oktober
2002]
pressemeddelelse
Sparwasser HQ: Let's crystallize
- Marika Seidler & Michelle Eistrup (dk)
Celina Gonzalez Sueyro (arg)
Morten Schelde & Gabriela Albergaria (dk/por)
Let's crystallize
Opening October 25th 7-11 pm
October 26 - November 23
Sparwasser HQ
Torstrasse 161
10115 BERLIN
+49 30 21803001
+49 30 44047981
cel 0179 6705859
www.Sparwasserhq.de
mail@sparwasserhq.de
Open we-fri 4-7 pm, sa 2-6 pm
In "let's crystallize", Sparwasser and the participating artists
deal with different ways of breaking with traditional systems of
knowledge, broadening this arena to include expertise and fields
of study aside from that of verified science or western cosmology.
Personal experience, belief, faith and individual perception are
all valid systems of producing meaning, showing a general human
need to interpret the world and communicate these thoughts.
The reality of postcolonialism is characterized by the contact between
different cultures and continents, a break with old systems of domination,
and a re-examination of western enlightenment as the primary world
model. "Let's crystallize" shows different ways of entering other
spheres of meaning, trying to see from the inside - inside another
belief, another world, and another person.
The pursuit for meaning also becomes a search for ways of expression.
It is through the breaking of boundaries between the here and there,
the you and me, that the visual becomes a room for communicating
subjective knowledge. In the exhibition "let's crystallize" the
cooperation between people becomes a way of sharing perception.
This kind of collective production is evident both in the project
by Marika Seidler and Michelle Eistrup, "Housing Spirits", which
combines art practice with sociology and the inside knowledge of
Vodoun practitioners, as in the collaboration between Gabriela Albergaria
and Morten Schelde in the piece "A room of ones own".
In contrast Celina Gonzalez Sueyro works alone, but in her work
"Hunt picnic" the combination of different layers seem to conjure
up the existence of a new reality in her installations. Common to
all the participants is the narrative element in their work. Narration
means inventing "a truth", creating a basic set of rules from which
we can navigate. Linking things together, narration makes our reality.
In Seidler & Eistrup's videos, storytelling is a form of consolidating
a collective reality. Through interviews we hear many versions of
the same experience, establishing an almost scientific proof of
the existence of (sexual) relationships between the living and the
dead. We step in and out of different layers of interaction, unsure
where the boundaries lie between these realms. In the end, we find
ourselves looped in the possibility of being a participant in this
existence.
Seidler & Eistrup's installation "Le Soleil de Minuit", consists
of one video projection, and in the adjacent room three videos are
available as an archive on a small screen. In Gabriela Albergaria
and Morten Scheldes work "A room of ones own", the viewer is torn
between a concrete physical space and an imaginary one. The work
questions our notion of reality. Can we talk about the "other" world,
the abnormal and phantasmagoric? Or do fairy tales and the illogical
represent ideas reaching back to the most obscure of our conceptual
enterprise? The collaboration of the two artists at Sparwasser HQ
in the form of a drawing has a history going back to 2001, when
both were invited by curator Henrikke Nielsen to show together at
Galerie Kamm, Berlin.
In her work, "Hunt Picnic", Gonzalez Sueyro establishes a scenery
of characters through her scenografic installation. A product of
pure ecstatic thought? She tells stories, that could hardly be told
in a three hour theater play.
With small changes in the room, like cut up wallpaper or cut outs
from street posters mounted to stand as figures in a three dimensional
collage, she carries us into a story of unpredictable coincidences.
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