i marmi, Primo Piano, Chiavari
 

 

what becomes and what remains / 2020
 

The prints developed for Primo Piano all refer to a picture of veined marble and also give the exhibition the title. The marble photo has been abstracted and changed over and over again over several generations of paintings and prints, so that it hardly reminds of the original picture - but it does contain traces of it. Movement and flow of amorphous forms serve as bearers of a story, traces of a transformation. They carry within their altered, completely abstract form the memory of time.It is a picture of the picture of the picture and tells the story of marble, which was intended as a sculpture and now finds itself as an abstract structure.

Inertia (equivalent to “lethargy” in a physical sense) is a series of large format oil paintings, ori- ginating from the same digital image material. Originally images of body parts, the oil paintings trace the attempt of surface and contour to establish themselves. The subject ( a knee with a hand ) such matter, by dint of being repeated, encircles objective perception, the beauty of the failure being revealed in the very impossibility of its ambition.

The tongues are a series of sculptures – they are large format bended and powdercoated alumi- niumsheets named NI, LN, M or SHH. They show positions of the tongue in the process of speech and reflect the circulation of language and form. The beauty of the repeated attempt to capture volatility, as well as the sketch of emotional connections, which are inscribed in the surface.

My assumption is that the human body is constantly exposed to high demands in the public space. It wrestles for self-assertion, and in so doing, serves as both a picture and projection screen, onto which are manifested expectations, prejudices and imaginings of every sort. What is and what seems to be melt seamlessly into one another. The language with and about the hu- man body is a story of representation, whereby reality appears to be relative. It interests me how language becomes symbol, and how far meaning is shifted as a result, as well as where identity begins.

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Susanne Schwieter / Berlin, Juni 2020