ABYSS ABYSS ABYSS Exposition collective avec
ALIHA THALIEN, BJÖRN EICHHORN, CLARA MIDON GOMEZ, CLÉMENT ERHARDY, GONÇALO LAMAS,
MASHA SILCHENKO, MAXIME CHABAL, SANNA LEONE
Frappant Gallery, Hambourg 2024
The impenetrable looks back. To fathom what seems to lie outside of one’s own understanding is equivalent to a state of sucking emptiness, a space of (im)possibility.
That which is considered certain is placed as a framework around it. This framework consists of partial perspectives that flow into each other, reinforce while also contradict each other. (1 2 3) Their simultaneity and equality create a fragmented picture of a larger whole.The gaps inbetween pose as black holes, uncanny and promising spaces of possibilities.
Numerous attempts to fathom one’s own existence result in highly technical endless loops of data enrichment. Exploring one’s own environment contributes directly to one’s own self-understanding and offers a surface for reflection. Interrelations and dependencies become apparent, and the inevitable piles up.
Confronted with ones own finiteness, embedded in a system that moves within
an unclear set of rules. Never stagnant, it reacts incessantly to its countless components. The body as the first material venue in the world (internal and external), archives, transforms and rejects.
One is also what one is not. You know what you don’t know. You forget things that have happened and remember things that never happened. Memories manifest in physical bodies, spaces solidify in thoughts and are preserved and carried forward in eternal change.
One’s own narratives are compared with those imposed from outside, emancipate themselves, hollow them out from within in order to (re)appropriate them. Basically, everything can be removed from its attributions; what appears to us to be certain was constructed using a variety of techniques.
Language, science, historiography, religion - all identity-forming tools, created to classify things according to a certain self-image. Beyond this, there is speechlessness, silence, the unsayable and the indescribable.
A dull, thumping, intangible space, comparable to the state before one’s own birth. The external world begins somewhere between the riverbed and the developing skin. Resting in a seemingly hermetically sealed bubble, exploring with the help of one’s own possibilities, the outcome uncertain.
Sanna Leone
