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The forest is a habitat, an economically and militarily used area, but at the same time also a multiple projection surface for cultural, historical, mythical and political narratives. Without losing sight of all this, the Berlin artists Nanne Meyer, Beate Spalthoff, Andrea Zaumseil and Francis Zeischegg have walked through a concrete forest area and based their artistic appropriations on it. They explored a former Russian military area in the Uckermark region of Brandenburg, which is characterised by conversion processes, and developed a project from it that is now being presented in its entirety at Galerie Nord.

Cartographic materials and language have long played an important role in Nanne Meyer’s graphic thinking. In the context of the project, she focused on instructions and warnings she encountered along forest paths. Andrea Zaumseil’s large-format pastel drawings are based, among other things, on surfaces of tree bark and geological folds, which she transforms into a spatial graphic illusion that combines immediate natural phenomena with overarching universal notions of space. In contrast, Beate Spalthoff, with her pronounced eye for the formal and absurd qualities of mundane things, shows detailed views of found objects, which she isolates and removes from their original context through meticulous graphic representation. Finally, Francis Zeischegg expands the perspective on the natural space of the forest to include the visor. With models, objects and drawings, she analyses visual axes and spatial dispositions of hunting and military, of power and surveillance.

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