Artists: Aline Bouvy, Viktor Timofeev, Stefan Fuchs, Ivan Pérard, Aniara Omann, Jannis Marwitz, Minda Andrén, Elisabeth von Samsonow, Lu Yang, Laurence Sturla, Yein Lee, Arik Brauer
Exhibition title: The Chasm
Organized by: Yves-Michele Saß
Venue: Franz Josefs Kai 3/17, Vienna, Austria
Date: May 2 – June 2, 2019
Photography: all images copyright and courtesy of the artists and Franz Josefs Kai 3, Vienna
The Chasm takes imagination as a general context in which to examine artistic practices that are interested in pre-modern myths and/or futuristic utopia. Instead of focussing on their temporal difference the exhibition suggests them as two kinds of knowledge, unequal in their theoretical and practical results, but not in the kind of mental processes which are the precondition of both.
Therefore the works fantasize about humanity, bodies, mysticism, brutality, architecture, visuality, sexuality, aggression, myths, apocalypse and the post-human in the forms of drawings, sculpture, paintings, installation and video:
Silicone based creatures for a post-human earth crawling across the floors and our dreaming ancestor (Aniara Omann); a wooden idol with a thai chi gesture (Elisabeth von Samsonow); a hero in outer space shooting ovaries and menstrual blood (Lu Yang); a Penck painting re-imagined on a collection of breasts & walls morphed into flesh (Aline Bouvy); cybernetically enhanced crustacean snacks impaled on metal spears (Ivan Pérard); meditations on renaissance paintings turned into emerald and ruby dreams (Jannis Marwitz); transmuted earthly burial mounds of an ancestral future (Laurence Sturla); fierce warriors timetravelling through collaboration (Minda Andrén); a mysterious halo (Arik Brauer); an amourphous object hanging from the ceiling haunting the binary mind (Yein Lee); glimpes into an alternate universe oscillating between order and chaos (Viktor Timofeev) and an architectual model for a psychedelic german farm house (Stefan Fuchs).
The exhibition is organized by Yves-Michele Saß and made possible with the kind support of Franz Josefs Kai 3, Zeller van Almsick, KOENIG2, Lucas Hirsch and Segurio Insurance.
The Chasm, 2019, installation view, Franz-Josefs-Kai 3/17, Vienna
Aniara Omann, untitled, 2018
Minda Andrén, Death Dealer, 2018; Minda Andrén, Zhangwei, 2018
The Chasm, 2019, installation view, Franz-Josefs-Kai 3/17, Vienna
Aline Bouvy, Kraft, Masse, Raum, Zeit, Geometrie (after AR Penck), 2018
Arik Brauer, Kein Viereckiger Heileigenschein, 1968
The Chasm, 2019, installation view, Franz-Josefs-Kai 3/17, Vienna
Stefan Fuchs, Der Junge muss an die frische Luft, 2019
Jannis Marwitz, untitled, 2018
Stefan Fuchs, untitled, 2019
Elisabeth von Samsonow, Transplant III, 2011
The Chasm, 2019, installation view, Franz-Josefs-Kai 3/17, Vienna
The Chasm, 2019, installation view, Franz-Josefs-Kai 3/17, Vienna
Aline Bouvy, untitled, 2018
The Chasm, 2019, installation view, Franz-Josefs-Kai 3/17, Vienna
The Chasm, 2019, installation view, Franz-Josefs-Kai 3/17, Vienna
Viktor Timofeev 1. Crack 1 in the Porcelain, 2017 2. (∞A) / B, 2018 3. Sazarus I, 2016 4. Everything Dies But You, 2016 5. (10A+5)/B, 2018 6. Interdependence, 2016 7. New Clouds (PLAST1CITY), 2012
Yein Lee, being-lichens, 2019
Laurence Sturla, On Curlew Road, 2019
The Chasm, 2019, installation view, Franz-Josefs-Kai 3/17, Vienna
Ivan Pérard, Please Humans, 2019
Aniara Omann, Pollinator (Moon Face); Aniara Omann, Pollinator (Snake)
Laurence Sturla, I saw but two stars I, 2019
The Chasm, 2019, installation view, Franz-Josefs-Kai 3/17, Vienna
Laurence Sturla, I saw but two stars II, 2019
Ivan Pérard, Open up Your Parts, 2019
Aniara Omann, Pollinator (Elven Ear)
The Chasm, 2019, installation view, Franz-Josefs-Kai 3/17, Vienna
Ivan Pérard, Dies on Your Tongue, 2019
Lu Yang, Uterus Man, 2013