. Outdoors, gunpowder burns quietly. In a closed space gunpowder explodes.

multimedia installation. digital collage, digital print on aluminium, 20x30 cm; performance

2016-24

 

The work is part of the ongoing research on the politics of celebrations, the relation between affect, movement and language, spectacle and invisibility, power and its disruption; between embodied experience and document. It departs from the notion that fireworks and gunpowder used in the military are parts of the shared power constellation. The collages overlap archival images of firework stands for socialist parades with video stills, maps and movements schemes of contemporary state celebration and protests.

 

 

Exhibition views:

Biennale Matter of Art 2024, curated by Katalin Erdődi and Aleksei Borisionok. National Gallery Prague – Trade Fair Palace. Photo credit: Jonáš Verešpej

'Lossy notes or typically a presentation has many constraints' duo show with Nina Emge, curated by Aleksei Borisionok. WAF Gallery. Photo credit: Philipp Pess

Image 7: with work by Nina Emge "If this is a dream, then make it come true (Stück für zwei Streicher und drei Stimmen) III, 2023