Quell
Visitors who entered the "Quell" exhibition in February 2022 in an industrial building from the 19th century, the Old Organ Factory in Durlach, Karlsruhe, might initially ask themselves the question: where is the art? Were the arranged objects in the half-darked room been found like this? It takes time until it become apparent that the "Quell" installation probably has a different reality. The german term quell here might be used in the further meaning of source, orgin or fountain what is viewed, what is found, is a simulation. It brings together various
details. A sort of sampled things. What emerges from it refers to a reality,but does not originate from a real place.
This procedure shows an opportunity, while in narratives or science fiction novels a linear story is followed and described places arise in the imagination, in visual art there is the discovery of connections “on one‘s own” through a own movement in space. In this case, the imagination works in the opposite direction: the place presents itself in front of us, but the actions that are supposed to have taken place here are part of our individual imagination. When looking at it, a own narrative is generated, which results from the interpretation of the
encountered situation.
The artistic work therefore consists in forming coherent spaces of association and allegories within a fiction, in creating functional processes, connections and apart from what is shown, to present a continuation of the created the possibility world of oneself. In terms of content, it is vaguely about energy, automation, monitoring or rationalization processes. This is suggested by the switchboard-like reliefs, insulators or drill cores that have been set up, as well as a kind of watchtower.
Today, reality is more difficult to grasp than ever. Which is why no concrete explanatory models are offered for the installation shown.
Rather, the viewer should be part of a world, to which they cannot say exactly whether it is a utopia or a dystopia.
A symbolically association space is given, thinking about what has been seen, can and should result in a free interpretation. "Quell", as the origin or beginning of a chain of thought.
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Ruben Einsmann and Philip Nürnberger met in 2016 while they studied at the HBK Braunschweig. Now they live/work in Leipzig and Karlsruhe.
"Quell" was the second larger common installation for both.
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Visitors who entered the "Quell" exhibition in February 2022 in an industrial building from the 19th century, the Old Organ Factory in Durlach, Karlsruhe, might initially ask themselves the question: where is the art? Were the arranged objects in the half-darked room been found like this? It takes time until it become apparent that the "Quell" installation probably has a different reality. The german term quell here might be used in the further meaning of source, orgin or fountain what is viewed, what is found, is a simulation. It brings together various
details. A sort of sampled things. What emerges from it refers to a reality,but does not originate from a real place.
This procedure shows an opportunity, while in narratives or science fiction novels a linear story is followed and described places arise in the imagination, in visual art there is the discovery of connections “on one‘s own” through a own movement in space. In this case, the imagination works in the opposite direction: the place presents itself in front of us, but the actions that are supposed to have taken place here are part of our individual imagination. When looking at it, a own narrative is generated, which results from the interpretation of the
encountered situation.
The artistic work therefore consists in forming coherent spaces of association and allegories within a fiction, in creating functional processes, connections and apart from what is shown, to present a continuation of the created the possibility world of oneself. In terms of content, it is vaguely about energy, automation, monitoring or rationalization processes. This is suggested by the switchboard-like reliefs, insulators or drill cores that have been set up, as well as a kind of watchtower.
Today, reality is more difficult to grasp than ever. Which is why no concrete explanatory models are offered for the installation shown.
Rather, the viewer should be part of a world, to which they cannot say exactly whether it is a utopia or a dystopia.
A symbolically association space is given, thinking about what has been seen, can and should result in a free interpretation. "Quell", as the origin or beginning of a chain of thought.
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Ruben Einsmann and Philip Nürnberger met in 2016 while they studied at the HBK Braunschweig. Now they live/work in Leipzig and Karlsruhe.
"Quell" was the second larger common installation for both.
