Let life be Beautiful like Summer Flowers
Curated by Dan Chan
Co-curated by Tjioe Meyer-Hecken
Exhibition: August 12 - September 24, 2023
Artists: Andreas Blank, Leon Emanuel Blanck, Lucas Foletto Celinski, Amélie Esterházy, Bethan Huws, Roey Victoria Heifetz, Zvi Hecker, Vera Kox, Michal Martychowiec, MajuShinoh Nam, Manuel Rossner, Antoni Starczewski, Anna Talens, Claudia Virgina Vitara, and Linhan Yu.
We are constantly trying to position ourselves to prove our value, and the understanding of the Self is predicated on the understanding of the Other, which is external to the Self.
The " I " is always trying to justify itself. We create objects constantly and use them to justify the existence of the subject or to realize the subject through the creation of objects: you and me, you and us, social classes, friendships, marriages, religions, races, political parties, nations, ideologies, psychological states, social institutions. These material and immaterial forms become reflections of our Self and reflections of our search for the Self. We touch, taste, observe, listen to the world around us and try to visualize the abstract Self by absorbing and reshaping it as we see it. We create reflections.
Our contemporary social context is characterized by extensive historical information, complex social structures, changing economic patterns and political relations, and accelerated technological developments that make the "echo wall" even more complex and diverse. At the same time, they inspire artists to experiment, test, investigate, criticize, reflect, explore relationships, and change or create new objects.
Creating art also requires an understanding of "reflections" and "past habits," a familiarity with materials, phenomena, and objects, an interdisciplinary imagination, a rearrangement of conceptual structures, and the use of visual means to make "creations" in an original language.
"The exhibition invites 12-15 artists with a wide range of skills and experiences to explore their self-symbiotic and self-confrontational relationships by using various media such as objects, images, texts, and sound effects and inviting the viewer to enter the artists' personal mirror world.
Text by Dan Chen