Lokaal 1B, Amsterdam
Performing Remains
Exhibition, solo, 2016
The objects in the room are traces of recent work done with the body. Some are reproductions of objects and people, some are what is left of physical labour, some are what remains of an artistic process that cannot be seen.
None of them adds up to a whole picture. Remains always set up an order between the visible and the invisible, what took material form and what did not. Kaja Silverman calls this the threshold of the visible world.
So an object can stand for a choreography with paper, glue and cardboard, in other words bookbinding, while the work of the body stays invisible. An archive box can hold a story where autobiography and fiction can no longer be separated, and an image that can no longer be separated from its medium. Two photographs of a body mark the time between them.
