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In Abeyance

Place: Gewölbe, project space of Art Cologne

Date: -

Artists: Alexandra Bircken, Manuel Boden, Isabella Fürnkäs, Louisa Gagliardi, Stefani Glauber, Sophie Gogl, Thilo Heinzmann, Annette Kelm, Michaela Meise, David Ostrowski, Michail Pirgelis, Judith Röder, Sarah Szczesny, Alex Wissel, Johannes Wohnseifer

Curated by: David Ostrowski, Michail Pirgelis, Johannes Wohnseifer

Works: Mnemonic

Small elements of everyday life – the media we consume, the images we see – make up our identities. In Isabella Fürnkäs‘ artistic practice, different types of media act as tools, to constantly balance out these everyday aspects of being. Combining different images, her work Mnemonic forms a contradictory liaison of past and present, beauty and brutality; resulting in a parallelism of familiarity and unsettlement. A tarpaulin or banner made of PVC materializes a collage of images, ranging from antique sculptures over pornography to odd playground slides, persistently circling around the human in different states and roles. The viewer is drawn into the well-known flood of images but simultaneously confronted with its perversion and overload. Fürnkäs takes advantage of our relationship to the image. It’s power over our emotions as demonstrations of political or social power become the playground for her work. She dissects systems of visual politics and rearranges the tracks our culture leaves. In this plastic memory, relics of antiquity merge with our search histories and tell us where we come from and what defines us. A constant trickle of thoughts, new windows popping up on our screen and never ending search suggestions describe the creation as well as the perception of this work. From a digital mess of public and hidden images, Fürnkäs artificially creates one version of collective past, present and future. With Mnemonic she exceeds the roll of the observer and joins the game of harmfully harmless iconoclasm and propaganda

- Text by Lucy Degens

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