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Damien & The Love Guru
Installation view
Installation view
Installation view
Installation view
Spot on. Senorita Latifa Sharifah with angel wings in front of – and inside – the Burj Khalifa in Dubai. Facades, columns, steel, concrete, glass. Architectures of power, in which the ideology of national grandeur, or alternatively the belief in a great idea, be it capitalism or socialism, manifests itself. Viewing platforms allow the view from above instead of below, the city becomes an experience, the overview becomes a commodity. Behind the window frames: even more angels of (Un)Schuld (meaning both innocent and free of guilt and their respective opposites), but from other [removed];
What we see are smartphone images, a logos of a money transfer service, and excerpts from archival reproductions of 15th-century paintings from larger sacred representation contexts.
The lamenting, mourning, praying angels are fragments from the high altar of the Benedictine monastery Liesborn. The four angel fragments are therefore still of value–not least as exhibits and clues for an elaborate reconstruction of the altar, in which various experts, institutions and collections participated.
Printed on protective netting and fixed to aluminum frames, the angels, architectures, and lettering are superimposed by Jasmin Werner to form montages and interconnected on an image surface. For the question of debt is never only one of money, but at the same time a political one and most closely interwoven with–religiously influenced–notions of morality. Particularly in the Middle Ages, the merging of the forming world religions and trade markets produces a logic and rhetoric of debt that has changed little to this day. When we speak of dependence and freedom, forgiveness and sin, the true and the false in our global capitalist economic and social system, it still boils down to the millennia-old question: Who owes what to whom?
– Marie Sophie Beckmann
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Liste Showtime
Jasmin Werner
13. – 26. June 2022
Jasmin Werner, Façadomy, 2020, mesh fencing, aluminum, zip ties, thread, 32 x 20 x 58 cm / [removed] x [removed] x [removed] in
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CURRENTLY
Magnus Andersen
READERS REMEDY
26. April – 2. July 2022
Damien & The Love Guru
Brussels
Vanessa Disler
LIGHT SLEEPER
14. May – 31. July 2022
Damien & The Love Guru
Zurich
Jasmin Werner
Stufen zur Kunst
11. March 2022 – March 2023
Kunstverein Hannover
Hannover
Christiane Blattmann & Jannis Marwitz
Isabella Costabile, Alice Creischer, Frank Diersch, Chris Evans, Benjamin Husson, Jochen Lempert, Perri Mackenzie, Emily Pope, Batsheva Ross, Niklas Taleb
curated by Christiane Blattmann and Jannis Marwitz
13. May – 9. July 2022
SUNDY
London
UPCOMING
Slow Reading Club
session in the context of the fourth Open School
25. June 2022 from 9pm – 12am
Wiels
Brussels
Emanuele Marcuccio
Raffaela Naldi Rossano
Sapore Di Mare
1. July – 10 July 2022
Forte Dei Marni (IT)
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