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11 Jun - 02 Jul 2005
Arthur Zalewski
Stephanie Kiwitt
11.06.2005 – 02.07.2005
Dwellings of carton, tarpaulins without rods, tables with three legs: these objects out of use and situations of ‚exceptional circumstances’ are documented by the Leipzig artist Stephanie Kiwitt in her work ‘quartier’. If there is a potential use for these observed constellations in social space stays a question in the background. However, Kiwitt reveals their specific fragility and odd poetics by displaying the metaphysics that results from human use. She herewith applies the delicately tuned method of “straight photography” that always alludes to the ever present narration but which eventually leaves it open.
Already existing constellations of our daily life are the references that are reflected in Arthur Zalewski’s work. He scrutinizes thoroughly the found objects for their visual and textual characteristics in order to represent them in the exhibition context anew. The mode of operation does not follow a specific pattern but rather works consciously with a more playful and experimental approach – ‘trial and error’. Not the perfectly crafted translation of classical material or formats is in the forefront but the reference of paradigm and work on a more abstract level. This intrinsic mutual dependence of the two poles, whose roles are constantly exchanging, becomes identifiable in Zalewski’s works.
Stephanie Kiwitt
11.06.2005 – 02.07.2005
Dwellings of carton, tarpaulins without rods, tables with three legs: these objects out of use and situations of ‚exceptional circumstances’ are documented by the Leipzig artist Stephanie Kiwitt in her work ‘quartier’. If there is a potential use for these observed constellations in social space stays a question in the background. However, Kiwitt reveals their specific fragility and odd poetics by displaying the metaphysics that results from human use. She herewith applies the delicately tuned method of “straight photography” that always alludes to the ever present narration but which eventually leaves it open.
Already existing constellations of our daily life are the references that are reflected in Arthur Zalewski’s work. He scrutinizes thoroughly the found objects for their visual and textual characteristics in order to represent them in the exhibition context anew. The mode of operation does not follow a specific pattern but rather works consciously with a more playful and experimental approach – ‘trial and error’. Not the perfectly crafted translation of classical material or formats is in the forefront but the reference of paradigm and work on a more abstract level. This intrinsic mutual dependence of the two poles, whose roles are constantly exchanging, becomes identifiable in Zalewski’s works.