Organic materials. Skin. Stones. Distortion. Cutouts and variance. On the second floor of an old brick building and former post office, nothing is as it seems. At Neumeister Bar-Am, Dutch artist Rachel de Joode explores “things”. She puts a question mark on the relationship between sculpture and its presentation. Her work oscillates on a continuum stitched between photography, installation and performance. Photography, as a faithful representation of objects, always indexes the loss of the third dimension – a category that corresponds to lived space. In thinking this limit, the artist experiments with handcrafted materials, mixing organic photo props and other forms of media. What remains is a question about the existence and perception of the image in the digital age. (Text: Amelie gr. Darrelmann / photo: Courtesy Rachel de Joode, Kansas Gallery, Neumeister Bar-Am)
Neumeister Bar-Am, Goethestr.2, Staircase D, Second Floor, Berlin-Charlottenburg; map
Opening: Sa 2.5.2015 18-21h
Exhibition: until 27.6.2015
Simultaneously: Kate Cooper at the project space “Der Würfel”
