KERSTIN BRÄTSCH / NIKOLAS GAMBAROFF / LUCAS KNIPSCHER
NICK MAUSS / CHARLES MAYTON / MARIE MICHAELS / SEAN PAUL
CLÉMENT RODZIELSKI / NORA SCHULTZ / VALERIE SNOBECK
Because the soul is progressive, it never quite
repeats itself, but in every act attempts
the production of a new and fairer whole.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson, On Art
I can’t believe it. No, I will not lie,
I can easily conceive of it.
- Samuel Beckett, Molloy
If I do everything in my own interest,
it is because the interest I have in
myself comes before everything else.
– Seneca, On Benefits
This exhibition focuses on the evolution of certain forms of production that are realized by the dismantling of external elements and uniting them into an internalized and intentionally conflicted whole. This activity is inherently schizophrenic and therefore results in a multifarious yet not unresolved output.
The title roughly translates to “before returning home you must burn down the house” – which could mean, among other things, that engaging with oneself one requires continual processes of disassembly in an effort to form a united, cohesive self. The linguistic shift in the exhibition’s title is representative of the passage from one state of being to another, with inevitable (and intentional) slippages in implication. Also at play are fractured, interrupted systems: disassembly/assembly, self/duality, subjectivity/influence, privacy/publicity, singularity/multiplicity. The exhibition seeks to locate itself in the fold between these states, in moments of transition and contradiction.
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Nick Mauss
Realizable, 2012
Silkscreen on aluminum
14 1/2 x 51 x 45 inches (36.8 x 129.5 x 114.3 cm)
MANI/O 12.001
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