Die Botschaft II
Site-specific mixed media Installation
250x250x80cm
2023
at
DRAGONER.01
"Super Contemporary Arts Fest"
Dragonerareal, Berlin-Kreuzberg
While "Die Botschaft I" was shown as an open-air installation as part of the "Labirynt - Festival of New Art" 2022 in the Polish forest in Urad, "Die Botschaft II" is shown in its subsequent state of development under the roof of Dragonerareals Adlerhalle.
While the multi-part installation began with a landing in a large-scale (spider?) web made of metal chains, the three figures are now shown hanging upside down, individually partitioned in a fabric structure of artificial spider silk framed by the same chains.
While "Die Botschaft I" reflected an initial collective entanglement taking place at the back of the human gaze to the heavens and human striving turned away from the earth - a self-induced, introductory concatenation with human and non-human structures - the position of the messengers, as representatives of the collectively human, already appears much more acute in the second part of the work cycle.
Enclosed tighter and tighter by the man-made structures of the metal chains, the messengers seem to have lost all freedom of movement and/or action. But are the fabric structures created underneath really spherical nets as markers of the imminent dissolution of the messengers in the planetary corpus? Or could they also be cocoons that herald the possibility of a transformation and new formation of the human in relation to the non-human?