underneath

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The gallery interiors are shrouded in darkness, the opening to the street taken away. The artificial light blocks out the natural, a re-orientation in the space is unavoidable. This specific spatial situation of the Galerie Nord is the starting point for an exhibition that deals with space and time.

Using light as an ephemeral material, Annika Hippler draws lines as an infinite path through space, thereby redefining it. She experiments with the interplay of natural light and artificial intervention.

The moment of translation plays a central role in Soo Youn Kim’s drawings and sound arrangements. She translates the four points in time of the sun and moon into her own notation system and musically interprets the graphic score.

Marion Orfila creates an additional floor that influences the perception of her own body in space by making it partially disappear beneath the surface. This artificial membrane of paper-thin concrete divides the space into two levels – one too low for a ceiling, the other too fragile for us to walk on. At the beginning, the passage through the space is blocked and only gradually is the surface broken up for the visitor and new paths are created.

The selected time-based and site-specific installations play with brightness and darkness, artificiality and reality, visibility and hiding, disorientation and physical re-location in space.

With the kind support of the district development funds of the Senate Department for Culture and Europe and the Bureau des arts plastiques of the Institut français Germany.

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