The exhibition shows a selection from a cycle of work that I started back in 2007. Two lines from a poem by Joseph Brodskij serve here as a title or motto. In this 'war year' I wanted to review and re-assess the works and present them in an actualized version.

The current presentation was created in dialogue with my individual reading of poems and text passages by Joseph Brodsky. His demure, often philosophically influenced poems speak of the transience of our lives, of the loneliness of exile, of desperate longings. He often accuses the reality he perceives of mendacity or exposes it with ironic acumen. All in all, the tone is often somber.

My reaction to reading his texts created a visual language of its own, creating visual forms out of letters. I have constructed an ‘Architecture of Memory’ that inscribes itself in familiar rooms through the arrangement of the pieces of furniture or the way the light is flooding the room from certain windows. These ‘spaces of memory’ are often associated with reading certain authors, whose words add an additional layer to things. Photographs of stools and sun shadows from the windows as patterns on the wooden floor appear transformed into floating objects and - in a more abstract series of drawings - transformed into 'Ovals and Grids'.

The project explores different perspectives and modalities of seeing reality; of fullness, structure, remembered places and ultimately of emptiness - the absence of things, of people, of attachment… What is real and what appears so? How do I deal with questions of depiction?

‘An image of reality is also an image of an image of reality…’, a motto I have often used to describe my works in the past. From my point of view, Brodskij's observations and his handling of the world illuminates precisely such aspects.

As part of the exhibition, there will be a reading to which I have invited the poet Alexandru Bulucz. He will read his own poems and together we will read a selection of Brodskij's poems.

Kopfwand

• aus der Fotoserie 'Studio Seven'
  Lambdaprints auf Dibont kaschiert
  Diptychon, Edition 3/3 + 1 A.P. , je 45 x 60 cm
• Shadow Drawings
  Markerzeichnung auf Transparentpapier, 70 x 50 cm Querformat
  Markerzeichnung auf Kristallpaier, 60 x 80 cm Hochformat
• Stanzas
  Marker auf Kristallpapier, 70 x 50 cm, 2-lagig, Querformat

Bücherregalwand

• Nature Morte
  Marker auf Transparentpapier, je 25 x 31 cm 2-lagig (5 Blätter)
• 4 Unikate aus dem Künstlerbuch 'the poet's mind is an organ of seeing'
  Digitale Fotos auf Hahnemühlenpapier, je 30 x 42 cm