Rosen im Dezember

Artists

Rosa Rendl, Daphne Ahlers, Lilli Thiessen

Press release

Introversion and extroversion are equivalent distortions. Rocking gently. All is muted, dimmed. Rosa Rendl, Daphne Ahlers and Lilli Thiessen offer a soft surface for the overstimulated. Numb but on high alert, nothing seems placid. Yet somehow, not all has gone flaccid. Ripped sixpacks, tight packages are still available on the dropdown menu, now with complimentary orthopedic care. Sculpture emancipates itself from landscape and architecture to become nomadic, concentrating on its make-up, routine and performance within a set of cultural terms. Artists emancipate themselves from their cocooned brains and let them go to seed to become porous bodies that autotune to the environment, dress to match the furniture. Critics deprecate the mediocrity, naïvety, and soft-mindedness, but one could as well seek roses in December – ice in June, as expect merit from a certain set. The current show is not a collaboration as such, but there is something communal in the harmonious and productive discord. Molecules have been resonating for years between Rendl, Ahlers and Thiessen. A mutual celebration of the citational. Knowledge shared episodically through whatever each of them saw, heard, or read. By spontaneous telepathy resistant to capitalist technologies and patriarchal patterns. Making things and offering them to the world, not for utility or future capital gains, but to cast memory in physical form. Sculpture is frozen music: the observer is the pickup on the record player whose movement realizes the temporal sequence. Im Zweifelsfall keep dancing. We see more clearly when we are moving than when we stand still. Bei welcher Auswahl soll ich bloß anläuten? Egal. Shoot blank. Have courage. Absolve the need to determine everything. Your selection will be custom-gift-wrapped to match your current mood.