WAS BLEIBT

Carlotta Drinkewitz + Delia Jürgens

Berlin Facades, Berlin (GER) 09-11-20 - 09-13-20

Livestream: September 12th, 8 pm MESZ (GER) / 11 am PST (CA-USA)

Thinking about the desert includes to think about sand and erosion. In its continuous transformation sand stands for something that is unthought and somewhat unthinkable. It's pixelated nature captures origin and estuary, derivation and desition, emergence and finish, begin and endlessness in its continuous alteration of hard grains. Finding meaning is its attribute. Sand works as a sign that is ambiguous - as a screen, as background, as medium, as the beginning. It is like the negative space of reality when something that is happening to us right now becomes the foreground. We feel this invisible thing happening in the space of the in-between and yet it effects us cellularly.

Throughout the lockdown Carlotta Drinkewitz and Delia Jürgens used sand as a painting medium and reference to the desert. Using social media live streams to connect two different sites (Brunswick and Los Angeles) they manifested the fluidity of formation itself in this very momentary fragment. The archived Livestream videos became the kept canvas creating the pictorial space of indexical signs. A painting series of 5 paintings and their opposite were created within the space of the in-between created with an Instagram account as their studio that is accompanied by a diary and letter exchange of the both. Was bleibt - Berlin Facades is the second alteration of the paintings, they were first shown in the digital space of Scranch for the exhibition The Day that dawns for you, will also dawn for me curated by Jessica Dillon.

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