nouveau niveau

31.01.2019 - 02.03.2019

foundation, Wien / Österreich

When yet another flower store goes out of business, I always imagine it as a larg scale vanitas sujet. In about the same time as your bouquet at home slowly loses its gorgeous colors and starts to dry out, the store moves out its flowers and displays, to make place for the new. In a short period absolutely nothing happens – no one goes in or out, the decoration is gone; the stains, the wall cracks, and all the flaws appear even more intense because it was covered by literal beauty.
So I look at this four-storey house, where a leftover light-sign above the void says: BLUMEN
Like the occasional flower, which ends up between the conserving pages of a catalogue, I pick these conceptual flowers from the house wall and put them in a suitable box....

Have you ever been looking at the clock and seen recurring numbers, ?00:00?, ?11:11?, ?22:22?? Intuitively one knows it’s a message. Spirit guides might get your attention when they show you something repeatedly. Perhaps that’s because something is meeting the eyes half-way and numbers are everywhere, hiding and showing at the same time. Other examples include covers on motorcycles, bikes and furniture in winter time, shaping bulbs out of differing silhouettes. Or rooftop architecture seen through the mirror image of muddy puddles. Distraction are lurking around every corner.


[Quelle: Einladung]