6/12/2014
Isa Melsheimer
IKOB, Eupen
'Synapsen'. The exhibition present a moving room, a multitude of synaptic contact zones, of open and changeable spaces that are crossed by numerous signals transmitting information on each side of their surface.
Every limit is a threshold that indefinitely widens the space. Every frontier is a contact zone that opens to 'the Other'
For this last exhibition in the series of Fata Morgana the ikob attires itself in numerous limits, frontiers and thresholds through the works of Isa Melsheimer (*1968).
The artist relentlessly explores the question of the limit by creating and moving rooms. Her series of “curtains” create, within the ikob, a multitude of synaptic contact zones, of open and changeable spaces that are crossed by numerous signals transmitting information on each side of their surface. Like membranes on which the picture is fixed, close and distant, spatial and installation-like, these curtains oscillate between transparency and opacity, opening and closing spaces, literally unveiling what the surface has to say about the depths.
Thus putting into dialogue these series of curtain-veils Synapsen offers a visual reflexion on the sensitive experience of the threshold and, simultaneously, about the close and the distant, the veil and the aura as defined by Walter Benjamin in The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction.
* With the support of Deutschsprachige Gemeinschaft Belgiens, Service du Patrimoine culturel de la Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles, Province de Liège, Creutz & Partners.
BIOGRAPHY: Isa Melsheimer was born in 1968 in Neuss (Germany) and lives and works in Berlin. After her studies at the Hochschule der Künste in Berlin, she lived and worked, thanks to scholarships and artist residences, in Marfa Texas, Los Angeles, Istanbul and Rome. In her sculptures and installations, Melsheimer repeatedly refers to architecture, urbanism and landscaping. The form of expression with which she discusses mostly uninhabited or endangered situations is often linked to the perpetuous change in scale and perspective. Isa Melsheimer is represented by the galleries of Esther Schipper (Berlin), Nächst St. Stephan (Vienna) and Jocelyn Wolff (Paris). Important exhibitions took place at (among others) the Bonnefanten Museum in Maastricht, the Museum of Art Santa Monica in Los Angeles and the Carré d’Art contemporain in Nîmes.
Image: Isa Melsheimer, Vorhang (Eule), 2012 , Detail
Press Contact: Ingrid Mossoux, i.mossoux@ikob.be, +32 87 56 01 10
Opening: Sunday 7 December 2014, 3pm.
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