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The VERY IMPORTANT
The in-between
The monolith
Hošek Contemporary
Berlin, 2023
The VERY IMPORTANT:
Acrylic, lacquer and ink on chiffon.
Lacquer on fence feet and construction fences.
Installation, 17,5 x 2 meter
The in-between:
Handmade glazed ceramic tiles, acrylic on cement.
150 x 120 cm
The monolith:
Plastic waste and crystal clear EU Polyurethane.
4 cm diameter x 190 cm
Photo credits:
CHROMA, Ilaria Biotti, Mari Vass
The VERY IMPORTANT, the in between, the monolith are three artistic elements that rescue forms found in public spaces in Berlin and that are treated as formal cultural heritage of the present.
The fragility, temporality, multiple authorship and aesthetic characteristics of these elements are made visible in this installation.
The VERY IMPORTANT is a large-format painting displayed on a zigzag of construction billboards that shows us many copies of underlined lines of words found on facades in Berlin.
The in between is a reenactment of the marks left from an erased message on the tiles of the Kottbusser Tor underground station that can only been seen in the tile joints.
The monolith is a public transport support bar made with remains of materials such as plastic, glass and colored cardboard found on the gray floors of the city.
(Scene one)
Space.
The public space: öffentlicher Raum
Public space closed to the public.
Fences that cut off the access and that draw an absurd contour surface.
Zigzag walking.
(Scene two)
Someone underlined a word on a facade. An attempt to get my attention and to highlight something that should be important. It is not known if it is still important or if whoever wrote it has already forgotten what was important. It is so underlined that it must have been very important.
Other words are underlined too.
So many important things that is hard to recognize the most important.
(Scene three)
An anonymous message was written on the tiles of the subway in Kotti and then erased.
“Cleaned”
I never got to read the message but I can try to decipher it through the rests of it that are left between the tiles. Speculate about the wall.
If you look down, to the floor, there are remains of confetti, broken glass from a bottle and a plastic bag that now give hints of color to the gray of the floor as if the party was still going on.
Fragments of collective actions.
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