Potential Space (Ein möglicher Raum)
The work, Potential Space (Ein möglicher Raum), thematizes the possibility and impossibility of space. It points to the human capacity of imagination, which constitutes the foundational condition for social change.
Potential Space (Ein möglicher Raum) was shown as part of the exhibition entitled “Class Issues – Art Production In and Out of Precarity” at the Berlinische Galerie. Like many of my works, this work consists of very simple materials that have been decoupled from their original use: thin rice paper and diluted ink. Both materials are traditionally used for writing and drawing. I glue the paper onto the wall using the diluted ink, then shift and remove the paper while it is still wet so that patterns emerge both on the wall and the paper. Later the paper attaches itself to the wall during the drying process. The large beveled paper sheets and the paper that had been removed leave the impression of an opening in the wall. This is a principle with which I have been working since 2010: maximizing the imaginative possibility of opening up rigid flat surfaces through a reduction of materials.
In a second step, I then removed the paper completely from the wall - revealing the print on the wall itself.
