Latent Fiction: Jimmie Durham, Michael Franz, Ulrich Hakel, Marie von Heyl, Martin Kohout, Mirja Reuter, Joseph Walsh
8.04.2016–20.05.2016
Latent Fiction reflects on the ambivalence of the individual being viewer and part of a system simultaneously. The assemblage of work sparks a dialog between the various meanings of wish and desire.
To wish or to desire entails the construction of a framework – Gilles Deleuze speaks of the absence of isolated perception in what is defined as a wish (Abécédaire: désir). Desire will always address an entire construct of elements and is in close correlation to a societal field in which it exists.
At the same time desire flows, is invention and experiment, and essence of all productive processes. It is a canalized catalyst for the artistic as well as industrial production. As an object, it further reproduces itself there where it is staged: in designated contexts, architectures and displays, hereby becoming a measure for social relationships.
The artist can trigger shifts within these constructs and lay bare the absurdity of our concrete reality during the moment of its transformation
Participating artists: Jimmie Durham (*1940), Michael Franz (*1974), Ulrich Hakel (*1973), Marie von Heyl (*1981), Martin Kohout (*1984), Mirja Reuter (*1986) und Joseph Walsh (*1978)
Curator
Mika Schmid