belted (comb), 2024
steel, fabric, synthetics, plastic, 217 x 58 x 62 cm
In withered looks. On splintered minds. small/ with no end
compared to – extras. while they momentarily blend
light comb (kink), 2024
stainless steel, silicone, plastic, 243 x 49 x 51 cm
Spoke in a narrow | Glass that you hold
Whenever they fight | We keep holding a breath
So tight in my eyes | For all. What descends
When we forgot the first sunset, 2024
plastic, PU foam, steel, synthetics, rubber, 190 x 350 x 420 cm
exhibition view, FORÊT [SCEPTIQUE], Bavarian Forest
BEFORE WE HIT THE GROUND
THINGS
– COVERING IN SHAME
WORLDS WILL BE STITCHED TOGETHER
AND WE FURIOUSLY
DREAM ABOUT LOVE
drowned (system), 2024
plastic, aluminum, rubber, silicone, 37 x 28 x 14 cm
Dwarf fruit. – The mote in your own eye is the best magnifying glass. The whole is the untrue. [1]
unilateral corner (unit), 2024
wood, marble, styrofoam, plastic, copper, paper, fur, 104 x 31 x 11 cm
Fear-mongering does not apply. – What the truth might objectively be, remains difficult enough to discern, but when dealing with human beings one should not allow oneself to be terrorized by this. There are criteria there, which seem satisfying at first. One of the most reliable is the reproach that an expression is “too subjective.” If this is laid down with that indignation, which echoes with the furious harmony of all reasonable people, then one has reason to be satisfied with oneself for a couple of seconds. [1]
hoisted (chair), 2024
plastic, glass, paper, wood, lacquer, synthetics 104 x 31 x 11 cm
Hothouse plant. – The talk of early or late development, seldom free of the death-wish for the former, is not binding. Whoever develops early, lives in anticipation. Their experience is an a prioristic, intuitive sensibility, which gropes in pictures and words for what is later redeemed in things and human beings. Such anticipation, satiated in itself, as it were, turns away from the external world and lends the color of something neurotically playful to the relationship to the latter. [1]
plumbed (parrot), 2024
plastic, aluminum, rubber, silicone, stainless steel, 45 x 51 x 12 cm
Only a quarter of an hour left. – Sleepless night: there is a formula for this, agonizing hours, stretching without prospect of end or dawn, in the vain effort to forget the empty duration. Horrifying, however, are the sleepless nights, in which time shrinks and runs fruitlessly through one’s fingers. [1]
marked (arm), 2024
plastic, glass, paper, synthetics, 104 x 31 x 11 cm
Spoilsport. – The affinity between asceticism and euphoria, noted by the humdrum wisdom of psychology, the love-hate between saints and whores, has the objectively valid ground, that asceticism accords to fulfillment more of its rights than cultural installment-payments. The hostility to pleasure is certainly not to be separated from the consensus with the discipline of a society, which has its essence in demanding more than it grants in return. [1]
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photography
Mareike Tocha
Jan Hoeft
[1]https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/adorno/1951/mm/ch03.htm
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selected exhibitions
https://www.ofluxo.net/foret-sceptique/
https://kubaparis.com/submission/3367
https://kubaparis.com/submission/343387
https://artviewer.org/alfons-knogl-and-lukas-schmenger-at-artothek/
https://weinspach.org/fruit/
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FLⒶT$ https://www.contemporaryartlibrary.org/venue/fl-t-11699
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