Christine Moldrickx at P/////AKT

Artist: Christine Moldrickx

Exhibition title: Herzschritt (Pace) Macher (Maker) Am I an Object, part I

Venue: P/////AKT, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Date: May 8 – June 13, 2021

Photography: all images copyright and courtesy of the artist and P/////AKT, Amsterdam

Something oily, the smell of sweat, thighs stick together. The seams of earth between the heated asphalt slabs. Each screen seems to capture a moment of afterglow; a slow cooling down.

Infrared sounds warm, reminiscent of an incubator lamp. Although in this case the warmest spots on the images are those that tend to lose all color. Like the snow on the roof of a heated but badly isolated house. The camera has to constantly adjust itself, to measure the surfaces again and again. Everything, also that which seems lifeless, is constantly pulsating and pumping.

The image has to push itself through a fine-meshed net. Particles separate themselves and find each other again on the other side, on another surface. (S. says that the bodies on the images look like power plants, inside of which warmth is produced that radiates to the outside.)

Transformation is supposed to occur inside the object. Where is the inside? Does one encounter it in the matter, while it is worked, moved, pushed against its grain – while something is done to it? The order of things. A possible sequence: word, thing, materiality… appearance.

Christine Moldrickx’ exhibition at P/////AKT marks the beginning of a new series of solo endeavours. Am I an Object will run until March 2022, is further featuring projects by Nicola Arthen, June Crespo, Tako Taal (in collaboration with David Dale Gallery Glasgow) and Suchan Kinoshita. It will be responded to in writings and events by students from the Sandberg Institute Critical Studies Department. Alec Mateo and Benjamin Schoonenberg are taking care of the first session.

The Artist’s Library

The Artist’s Library is a growing collection of titles that have, in one way or another, been relevant to the artist’s practice. They will be on view during the exhibition and become part of the P/////AKTSALON collection of books afterwards. Christine Moldrickx highly recommends:

– Chantal Akerman, My Mother Laughs, Silver Press, London, 2019.

– Laurie Parsons, A Body of Work, Städtisches Museum Abteiberg, Mönchenglad-bach, 2018.

– Chuck Smith, Forrest Bess: Key to the Riddle, Powerhouse Books, New York, 2013.

About P/////AKT

P/////AKT is a non-profit exhibition space for contemporary art that organizes and facilitates large scale solo presentations through which the audience gets the oppor-tunity to gain insight in the thinking space of the artists.

P/////AKT provides a platform for exceptional, emerging artistic talents, who distin-guish themselves through their unique and authentic language and who are capable of giving a diﬀerent view on the current way of thinking. They are stimulated to work out new developments and are given the opportunity to present their work to a rele-vant audience. Furthermore, P/////AKT always asks the artists to produce new work that relates to the specific nature and dimensions of the given space and to present their own mental space as an overall presentation within the given context.

Christine Moldrickx, Herzschritt (Pace) Macher (Maker), view and details of the exhibition, P/////AKT, 2021. Photographs by Charlott Markus, courtesy of P/////AKT Amsterdam