David Mergelmeyer: Exercises in Equivalence

In the organizer's words:

With his textile sculptures, David Mergelmeyer develops a visual language that alienates the everyday and transfers the supposedly familiar into new contexts of meaning. Mergelmeyer transplants materials and forms into sculptural bodies that lose their original function and at the same time develop an irritating and poetic quality. The exhibition title Exercises in Equivalence refers to Mergelmeyer's fundamental strategy: categories, attributions and meanings are not abolished, but transformed into equivalences and transformations. His works move between the organic and the synthetic, the familiar world of things and the animistic world of objects. This gives rise to new bodies, hybrid spaces and performative situations in which his textile techniques develop their special power, literally a spirit of their own.

With David Mergelmeyer, galerie januar presents an artistic position that negotiates the boundaries of sculpture and translates questions of identity, materiality and transformation into sensual, visual forms in space.

David Mergelmeyer (*1985, Bocholt) studied communication design, applied art and design as well as sculpture in Düsseldorf. In 2022 he completed his studies as a master student of Thomas Grünfeld at the Düsseldorf Art Academy. He lives and works in Holzwickede and Düsseldorf. In his artistic practice, he deals with questions of transformation: Ordinary materials such as fabrics, braids or everyday forms are changed in such a way that they appear familiar and yet strange at the same time. Through these shifts, he opens up new perspectives on things that characterize our everyday lives and almost casually develops a unique artistic material language with the help of sculptural strategies.

For the opening on September 5, the performance there is a Treasure in every Twist with the performer Markus Henschler and live sound by Nathalie Brum will take place in the exhibition at 8 pm .