JOKE VDH
P007 →TIME CURVES LIKE A PRETZEL INSTALLATION 2018
Neuer Aachen Kunstverein, NAK, Aachen (G) september 2018Collaboration with Sharon Van Overmeiren
Installation with ceramics, plaster, sand, light-boxes, digital print, video.
The exhibition reflects upon the idea of living in post-apocalyptic times. A steady multimedia-based superfetation of images and news has left behind a confused society. It is sealing itself off from the media, distrust and disclaimer replace the need for information and knowledge. In an age of fake news scientific facts as well as past ist constantly questioned. In this stage of denial emotions replace facts, projection replace knowledge, objects replace anticipations.
Sharon van Overmeiren captures this transformation in her fictional sculptures, whose oftentimes animalistic nature betimes reminds of depictions of totems. Similar to an artifact the works exist in past,present and future at the same moment.
In the process the exhibition room becomes the site of an archaeological excavation, whose scientific esthetic connotation is reinforced by the use of photographical prints by Joke Van Den Heuvel, which can be observed throughout the exhibition. The uncovered and henceforth
documentary charted objects are tangent on a stress field made up between perception, ancestry and civilization, always at variance and continuously asking, in a search of origin and
meaning, incessant and inherent in all things.
Text by Maurice Funken