The place of exile, which is language that is scripture, will probably also derive from the material in which every symbolic formulation manifests itself. Or.: A poem! In the style of an ancestor. Reading Aimè Cèsaire’s “Back to the Land of Birth” should be the starting point for an installation appropriate to the occasion and location. The return is above all finding a new self confident language. In this sense, a selfimage as a “contemporary WHEREVER sculptor” should be euphorically celebrated. Whereby adaptation to and integration into local hegemonies may be resisted.
Zurück ins Land der Geburt (Back to the
Land of Birth) / 2005 / wire, papermaché, decor paper / 220 x 260 x 190 cm Show: Lives and Works in Vienna II /14.05. 04.09.2005 / Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna
The founding moment of a selfconfident movement of emancipation. A kind of hybrid construct whose actual and not merely sentimental connections to something originally native, may not be denied.
lies lass fremde mich mir werden (read let strangeland me myself become) / 2010 / ceramics, iron, concrete / 267 x 46 x 15 cm / Show: Faksimile der Schuldverschreibungen (Facsimiles of the certificates of indebtedness) / 18.09. 06.11.2010 / Kerstin Engholm Galerie, Vienna
The soil works for everyone. But before I land at the future gardens, give me the rigidity of a proud dugout and its flowing power. Give me the cheers of a new message! Cradle and silence the child, oh my word, the child that does not know that the card of spring has to be constantly redrawn. (Aimé Cèsaire.)
Zurück ins Land der Geburt (Back to the Land of Birth) / 2005 / catalog contribution detail / 220 x 260 x 190 cm Show: Lives and Works in Vienna II /14.05. 04.09.2005 / Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna
