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Jahresgaben 2017/2018

Place: Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen, Düsseldorf

Date: -

Invited by: Eva Birkenstock

Artists: Ei Arakawa & Christian Naujoks, Anna-Sophie Berger, Eliza Douglas, Henning Fehr & Philipp Rühr, Alicia Frankovich, Isabella Fürnkäs, Wade Guyton, Johannes Paul Raether, Hedda Schattanik & Roman Szczesny, Tobias Spichtig, Davide Stucchi

Works: Hide & Seek


In her video works, performances, drawings, and installations, Fürnkäs confronts the unstoppable production of images in the 21st century and explores the visual spaces of our present through the use of chance and everyday practices. She employs language, drawing, and gestures to transform the flood of images into media-reflexive actions through performative, installative, and time-based techniques. Fürnkäs’s Hide & Seek (#1-8), is a series of fictitious portraits that take their starting point in passport-photo-sized drawings of faces. Analogous to the latter, in Hide & Seek it is a coffee stain that has been worked on with ink and oil sticks in such a way that highly abstracted, partly expressive, partly subtle or ghostly-looking faces appear on the paper. The expression of Fürnkäs portrayed figures ranges from exalted, contemplative to opaque, yet - in contrast to digital images - they have a medially inscribed, vulnerable quality.

- Text by Eva Birkenstock

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