Theo Cowley treats body movements as abstract forms. Laurent David, through his repetitive and highly constrained painterly practice, seems to question the interdependence between wall, paper and paint. David Ferrando Giraut literally makes the moment last in his Road Movie - Perpetuum Mobile (2008).
An openly constructed moving image of a car accident. Norbert Grunschel’s truly diverse works translate his personal memories and emotions into the language of modernist past. Marlieke Meyerʼs objects are created to serve a dreamy purpose. Her poetic work titled De geborgenheid van de slaap (2007), a seriously constructed plaster ball placed on a steel pile, is a spot where resting faces can be watched.
Andrew Hollisʼs conceptual paintings explore the illusionary nature of an image and flattening of reality through his simultaneous creation and destruction of that illusion. Olga Raciborska intuitively investigates formal qualities of a painting. She is interested in the very moment when a painting ceases to be figurative and becomes
abstract. Marthe Sophieʼs sound-video work Happiness (2008) treats ʻhappinessʼ as a curious state of being.
In this piece an opera singer is singing Henry Purcellʼs Ode on St Cecilia Day in the sea. St Cecilia was singing to God while dying, or dying while singing.The sound works of Barbara Lambert are exploring the uneasiness between nature and a musical instrument. Her artistic investigation of the oxymoronic relation between the notion of an artefact and organic sounds seems to find a possibility for symbiosis.
The heterogeneous selection of works happened intuitively aiming at presenting different artistic messages expressed via various mediums but ones that have the potential to communicate beyond the obvious.
Agata Jastrzabek, curator
