Kleine Bottle, 2018
Kunstverein Leipzig (DE)
Performance, 33’00’’
in the frame of the exhibition "Vessel in motion" curated by Anna Jehle & Juliane Schickedanz
[1] A vase is an everyday companion. In their prevalent function as a container for flowers, vases establish an intersection between architecture, design and nature in our private living spaces.
[2] In doing so, they are one of the few objects that we attribute as much an aesthetic quality to when they do not fulfill their intended function. Aside from the decorative moment, they stand for a long cultural history of the vase as a vessel of histories, to the point of the urn as a container for the human body. Hence, they are simultaneously a means of communication between the inside and the outside, the present and the past as well as agents of our architectural and human shell.
[3] The exhibition Vessel in Motion is dedicated to this characteristic of a bodily horn of plenty and the moment of potential activation between object and subject. Sculptural works by four international artists are shown that explicitly address the form, function, cultural history and contextual shifts of vases.
[4] The questions raised by those vases about animism, corporeality, feminism, representation and design are furthermore reflected upon and expanded in different ways through performative moments enacted by three artists. A site-specific exhibition display offers both a stage for those performances as well as an integration of the vases in the specific architecture of the KV.
[5] A group show with works by Anna McCarthy, Lotte Meret Effinger, Pablo Ehmer, Lindsay Lawson, Peggy Pehl, Teresa Schönherr, Ronny Szillo and Lissy Willberg