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The Boomerang Effect
Place: Kölnischer Kunstverein
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Performed by: Nikolas Brummer & Jan Seevetal | Narrated by: Isabella Fürnkäs & Cristiana Cott Negoesco
Artists: Isabella Fürnkäs
Curated by: Juliane Duft
In the two-part performance The Boomerang Effect (2018), which she presents as part of the series Aus- & Vortragen curated by Juliane Duft, communication sounds as if it were echoing back from the facades of words. One can sense human desire and emotional fragility behind them in the same way they are also revealed in Fürnkäs’ other works.
With her art, Isabella Fürnkäs attempts to build a bridge between the manifestations of the digital age and that of the supposedly old world in which physicality still plays a role. In drawings, collages, performances, video works, and installations, she exposes the present day as a confusing thicket of surfaces that can hardly be penetrated as ever more layers open up. In her delicate coffee stain watercolors, for example, skin-colored faces appear like masks behind which is something unclear – Hide & Seek. Ultimately, what’s often concealed behind all of these layers is nothingness.
- Text by Juliane Duft