exploring visual manifestations of power structures
1 UHPC
2 An Identity Far Off
3 Thomas Kessler
“ALLE DINGE SIND SICHTBAR”: thermotransfer print on grey fabric: 4 × 3 m
UHPC
(Ultra High Performance Concrete) took place in the crypt of a catholic church. The title adverted to the raw concrete walls of the 1960s modernist style building. The event consisted of readings of several text formats such as the japanese poem Haiku by the authors Jonathan Lahr and Henrik Hillenbrand as well as three installations by Leonie Hosoda.
The works reflected the crypt as a place of secrecy and depth in opposition to the tangible and elusive e.g. of the haiku. The fabrics covered two religious pictures and the altar. The textiles created a play of revealing the sacral symbols as mere surfaces and at the same time transforming them into objects of speculation in concealing their shapes.
“TIEFE TRANSPARENZ”: thermotransfer print on black fabric: 1,4 × 1,35 m
“HINTER NICHTS VERBORGEN”: thermotransfer print on grey fabric: 1,6 × 2,5 m
Reading
2. FAR OFF
During the Art Event FAR OFF we presented an installation concerning various branded identities of a possible motive “Far Off”. Three routes represented three representative target audiences that were interviewed on site and confronted with their matchung consumer-product.
Performance using a flipchart with prints and post-its (2018).
FAR OFF is a young platform for galleries, curators and art spaces to promote their artists to an international audience during the art fair season in mid April in Cologne, Germany. The event questions each year, how today’s art can be presented in its most appropriate form for reception.
Photos: Michael Schaab, equallyathomeeverywhere
3. Thomas Kessler
Fictitious documents are tracing the life of Thomas Kessler, a higly qualified engineer slipping into unemployment. Authoritative documents unfold this personality.
This work was part of the exhibition „No Place to hide – Ort, Kontrolle, Produktion“ inside the Agency for Work (Arbeitsagentur) in Stuttgart,
January 2013.
Installation: various documents
(Certificate of A-Levels, unemployment benefit application,
registration attestation & Photographs)
Laserprints, 297mm x 420mm
2013
