Kaucyila Brooke
Marte Eknaes
Frank Hannon
Janice Kerbel
Davide Minuti
Sue Tompkins
Haegue Yang
Interpreting space as a gender-political issue and the experience of time as a series of gestures using a minimum of transformations, the group show will include works that represent a wide range of aesthetic practices and that engage with surprisingly diverse concerns.
Kaucyila Brooke, Marte Eknaes, Frank Hannon, Janice Kerbel, Davide Minuti, Sue
Tompkins, Haegue Yang
curated by Gyonata Bonvicini
The German word Brennschluss (end of burning) is a technical term identifying the
end of a rocket's ascent, when fuel is cut-off and it gives way to gravity. In that
precise moment, the moving vehicle is frozen, in space; it becomes a timeless
architecture, potentially open to every kind of possibilities. The temporary
suspension of time and space transforms the rocket into a sort of relic which
occupies a place between fact and fiction. Its aggressive nature is neutralized by a
sense of elusiveness, a search for something that exists as much in the imagination
as anywhere else.
Interpreting space as a gender-political issue and the experience of time as a
series of gestures using a minimum of transformations, Brennschluss will include
works that represent a wide range of aesthetic practices and that engage with
surprisingly diverse concerns. All these artists seek connections between past and
present, fact and fiction. They attempt to map not just the objective world but also
our private worlds and trace the complex interaction between the two. The depiction
of different locations is matched by dislocations in space and time: real places are
layered with inner, psychic landscapes defined by our own desires and obsessions.
As a result, the lack of closure of the levels opened on every occasion can be
explained by a nostalgia for the "freshness" of the debut, the phase of maximum
potential openness. As long as a project is not concluded, it still possesses that
freedom to begin again, the freedom of the first time. A project remains vital only
if it is the result of perpetually new beginnings. One could characterize this
artistic practice as a constructive interpretation of discarded things, which
transforms old into new while also incorporating the process of transformation into
the work. Each work forms layers of narrative upon the object, which combines form
and function into a new entity. By distilling past, present and future into a unique
temporality, this exhibition combines the duration of the works with the time of the
spectator, providing them with a challenging sensorial experience.
In the final analysis, Brenschluss can be considered as an integrated system, not as
a collection of works ordered according to a classification or composed in a static
arrangement. Inside a network the identity of each project depends on the global
character of the fabric of relations it manages to trigger; and all this implies a
continuous process of transformation that can no longer be contained inside a stable
category.
Opening: Friday, April 27th 2007 7 pm
Galerie Andreas Huber
Capistrangasse 3 - Wien