The artist is present

My display lights up in the dark. „Get some Headspace“, the app asks me in a push message. Maybe tomorrow. I am feeling okay. I‘m lying on the bed in my apartment, a bit beside myself. The furniture and objects around me tell me something. But the longer I look at them, the more they become secretive. Like my head, they are containers that hide something in themselves. Patterns become landscapes. Form does not follow function. More is more. In the apartment of Ralph Schuster the exhibition makes an interior accessible that recalls deliberately private conversations. We want to see the interior as a sheltered space, where both the home and the ulterior meet, as the starting point for a broadening of consciousness. (A counter model to the Neo-Biedermeier home as a place of retreat into private life.) According to Carl Gustav Jung‘s archetypal theories, the individual and the collective clash in the sub-consciousness. Although neo-capitalism has emerged in many ways from the ideas of 1960‘s counterculture, it has clearly made individuality the highest value. It is cold outside. „Get some Headspace.“