KARWATH+TODISKO, ANDREA VAN REIMERSDAHL
Kunsthalle am Hamburger Platz, Berlin
2016

silkscreen and foil on fabrics, wooden strips, link chains, eyelets, acrylic glass mirror, fluorescent tubes,1150 x 400 x 270 cm, with performance

Foto:Annette Hauschild, Ivonne Dippmann
PerformerIN: Natia Bakhtadze

As part of the SLIGHT SHOW exhibition at Kunsthalle am Hamburger Platz, an excerpt of the ESCAPES screen-print edition is shown as a staged performance.
The figure, as an exhibit, wears clothing from the edition of hand-made, one-off screen-printed pieces. For a period of 60 minutes, she paces through the exhibition space and the adjoining outside space. Like an algorithm that measures space in stages with the scale of time, the figure pauses at various stations of its performed trajectory. Visible to the visitors, she pauses, motionless, like a sculpture. The person is present but, with her head mask, denies the visitor direct eye contact.
The almost mechanical performance, between movement and standstill, is repeated in rhythmic sequence.

The Slight Show exhibition and catalogue was funded by the Pankow District Office in Berlin and from the Mart Stam Society.
32 pages, edition 200, offset printing, 4/4-colour, Design DIG Berlin, Karsten Heller