Unclosure

Das sagt der/die Veranstalter:in:

Truly good and, indeed, divine things are alive and active outside you and should be let in to work their changes. Such incursions formally instruct and enrich our lives in society (...).

Anne Carson, Eros the Bittersweet, 1986

In his fifth solo exhibition with the Galerie Guido W. Baudach, entitled Unclosure, Philipp Modersohn presents a new spatial installation. The starting point is an examination of structures of demarcation and division that can lead to isolation. Possibilities for emancipation from these structures are explored using various everyday objects: a stone that cannot be categorised, a monitor that emits nothing and instead reveals its materiality made visible by heating, a room that opens up to an undefined weather event.

Parallel to the exhibition Philipp Modersohn's first comprehensive monograph Attitudes of Stone is published by Bom Dia Boa Tarde Boa Noite, Berlin, edited by Wilma Lukatsch and the Kunstverein Oldenburg. The book contains short poetic and theoretical contributions by authors from various professions, pseudo-scientific diagrams, and an overview of the artist's previous site-specific installations and other works – creating a horizontal dialogue with collaborators as well as with the objects and processes themselves.