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Sean Capone Lives and works in New York Molecular Clock II, USA 2020, 6 minutes, Loop https://www.seancapone.com The film was created in response to the media imagery that emerged in the early days of the COVID pandemic. Images of cartoon viruses and efflorescent microbiological landscapes dominated the news, aestheticizing the crisis while almost obfuscating the human face […]
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Lorna Mills Lives and works in Toronto, Canada. Lorna Mills is represented by Transfer Gallery in Los Angeles, Ellephant in Montreal and DAM Gallery in Berlin. Volare oh oh, Canada 2015, loop http://www.digitalmediatree.com/sallymckay/LornaMillsImageDump/ With her animated loops, Canadian net and media art pioneer Lorna Mills transposes everyday fragments from the Internet into new hierarchies of meaning. […]
Eric Schumacher
Using visual and thematic research as a starting point, Eric Schumacher’s sculptural installations reflect his interest in public space and human activity within it. Rather than commenting directly on these mostly urban environments, Schumacher uses them as “visual or emotional input” for his sculpture-based practice, which often utilizes cheap and easily accessible materials such as […]
Lauryn Youden
At the center of Lauryn Youden’s exhibition are two wall-mounted altars, each measuring just under four meters long. Filled with dried flowers, medicine, herbs, books, candles, and ritual-based objects, the content of these altars documents the survival strategies she has developed to navigate an ableist world. Visionary of Knives is a space of retreat and […]
Johanna Terhechte
The centerpiece of Johanna Terhechte’s exhibition at Künstlerhaus Bethanien is an image of one disembodied hand passing a piece of a paper to another. “Paper is the most two-dimensional thing I can think of,” the artist explains, “but by being handed to someone else it suddenly becomes something completely different.” It’s this fascination with perspective […]
Ingrid Lønningdal
Encompassing painting, drawing, sculpture, text, and textiles, Ingrid Lønningdal’s practice, according to the artist, “seeks to provide an understanding of the spaces we inhabit.” Often using architecture as a starting point, many of her works are the result of detailed building studies conducted in her native Norway and abroad. The first room of Lønningdal’s exhibition […]
Amélie Laurence Fortin
Amélie Laurence Fortin’s exhibition SUNBURST at Künstlerhaus Bethanien is the result of a months-long experiment with solar energy. Durign this time, using nothing but a length of red foil and objects, she could find in the kitchen, the artist staged a solitary performance, playing with the beams of light that entered through a skylight into […]
Yang Chi-Chuan
In her site-specific installations, Yang Chi-Chuan employs storytelling to explore relations between people, places, objects and events. In past works, she has mined her own memories to create site-responsive sound pieces that draw connections between her own personal history and the exhibition space, but more recently she has turned to myths and fables, using these […]
Rie Nagai
In Japan, “Kuuki wo yomu,” which loosely translates as “reading the air,” refers to the custom of adapting one’s behavior according to the mood of any given situation. Bound up in ideas of social conformity, this concept is central to the work of the Rie Nagai, whose emotionally charged indoor landscape paintings explore the cultural […]
Shoufay Derz
Comprising photography, sculpture and video, Shoufay Derz’s exhibition at Künstlerhaus Bethanien has its roots in earlier performances at Gulgadya Muru, the grass tree pathway in the Manly Dam Reserve, Sydney, in which participants were invited to paint themselves green and “emerge” as eels. Titled Loving the Alien, the performance has since turned into a major […]