Artists

Luzie Meyer

Press release

Betrayals of the Possible, Luzie Meyer’s second solo exhibition at Fanta-MLN, incorporates a six channel audio installation and a series of Argyrotype prints. Berlin Piece for Voice and Tap Dance (2025) is a 20-minute six-channel audio installation originally commissioned by the 13th Berlin Biennale. The basis for the sonic composition are sounds produced by tap dancer Cristina Delius. Formed by heterogeneous traditions, tap is rooted in multiculturalism, histories of colonial oppression, and the New York entertainment industry. Echoing the syncopated rhythms of the “machine age,” tap dance conjures a dialectics of freedom and restraint. The piece also features a poetic text in English and German, employing rhymes, alliterations, homophony, semantic shifts, metaphors, neologisms and wordplay, interweaving multiple registers of meaning through repetition and sonic patterning. Meyer developed the text between October 2024 and June 2025, in the wake of Berlin’s tense cultural climate at the time. The rhythmic, lyrical composition draws on fragments from conversations, artist union meetings, art events, senate debates, and diverse news sources. Appropriated phrases appear alongside the artist’s own voice and perspective on the historical moment. Channeling its emotional undercurrents, the work reveals the desires, fears, and pressures conditioning artistic production under increasingly difficult conditions. Accompanying the sound installation is a series of Argyrotype images, based on photographs taken during the rehearsals and recording sessions with Cristina Delius. The iron-based silver printing process is used to produce a repetition of the foot motif, translating a psychological state into something both bodily and material. Not intended as documents, the images function as fictions and narrations that inform, yet fail to fully grasp, the memory of an experience.