Being Towards The World
Leda Bourgogne | Jesse Darling | Kerstin von Gabain | Sophie Jung | Maria Lassnig | Alina Szapocznikow | Jala Wahid
Being Towards the World, installation view, Sophie Tappeiner, 2019. Courtesy of Sophie Tappeiner and the artists. Copyright: www.kunst-dokumentation.com
Sophie Jung, Frau Welt 1, 2019, foam material, mirror floor, nails, black cling film, c-print photograph, photocopy, medium gloss, clay, audio file, headphone, dimensions variable. Courtesy of Sophie Tappeiner and the artist. Copyright: www.kunst-dokumentation.com
Sophie Jung, Frau Welt 1, 2019, (detail). Courtesy of Sophie Tappeiner and the artist. Copyright: www.kunst-dokumentation.com
Kerstin von Gabain, Civilization and Monsters, 2019, wax, vaseline, plaster, wood, oil paint, nails, dimensions variable. Courtesy of Sophie Tappeiner and the artist. Copyright: www.kunst-dokumentation.com
Being Towards the World, installation view, Sophie Tappeiner, 2019. Courtesy of Sophie Tappeiner and the artists. Copyright: www.kunst-dokumentation.com
Sophie Jung, Sewfpowtwaits as Seethers, 2019, mesh, paint, plastic foil, page from a coloring book, clay, test tubes, black cling film, audio file, dimensions variable. Courtesy of Sophie Tappeiner and the artist. Copyright: www.kunst-dokumentation.com
Being Towards the World, installation view, Sophie Tappeiner, 2019. Courtesy of Sophie Tappeiner and the artists. Copyright: www.kunst-dokumentation.com
Sophie Jung, Sewfpowtwaits as Seethers, 2019, (detail). Courtesy of Sophie Tappeiner and the artist. Copyright: www.kunst-dokumentation.com
Kerstin von Gabain, A Small Intricate Box With Plasters On Top, 2019, plaster, 15 x 15 x 15 cm. Courtesy of Sophie Tappeiner and the artist. Copyright: www.kunst-dokumentation.com
Being Towards the World, installation view, Sophie Tappeiner, 2019. Courtesy of Sophie Tappeiner and the artists. Copyright: www.kunst-dokumentation.com
Maria Lassnig, Selfportrait, 1971, screening of original 16mm film, presented from a digital file, 05:00 min. Copyright: www.kunst-dokumentation.com
Being Towards the World, installation view, Sophie Tappeiner, 2019. Courtesy of Sophie Tappeiner and the artists. Copyright: www.kunst-dokumentation.com
Jala Wahid, Red Forever Approaching Obsidian, 2019, jesmonite, latex, 50 x 55 x 26 cm. Courtesy of Sophie Tappeiner and the artist. Copyright: www.kunst-dokumentation.com
Being Towards the World, installation view, Sophie Tappeiner, 2019. Courtesy of Sophie Tappeiner and the artists. Copyright: www.kunst-dokumentation.com
Being Towards the World, installation view, Sophie Tappeiner, 2019. Courtesy of Sophie Tappeiner and the artists. Copyright: www.kunst-dokumentation.com
Leda Bourgogne, Rash, 2018, fishnet tights, leather, zipper, thread, silicone, paint, plush blanket, 50,5 x 45,5 x 6 cm. Courtesy of BQ and the artist. Copyright: www.kunst-dokumentation.com
Being Towards the World, installation view, Sophie Tappeiner, 2019. Courtesy of Sophie Tappeiner and the artists. Copyright: www.kunst-dokumentation.com
Jala Wahid, Born from and Buried in Baba Gurgur, 2018, (detail). Courtesy of Sophie Tappeiner and the artist. Copyright: www.kunst-dokumentation.com
Alina Szapocznikow, Untitled, 1968, pencil on paper, 65 x 49,7 cm, Private Collection, Graz. Copyright: www.kunst-dokumentation.com
Being Towards the World, installation view, Sophie Tappeiner, 2019. Courtesy of Sophie Tappeiner and the artists. Copyright: www.kunst-dokumentation.com
Jesse Darling, Plastic bags, 2013 (2019), color photograph, edition 4/5, 100 x 70 cm. Courtesy of Gallery Sultana and the artist. Copyright: www.kunst-dokumentation.com
Being Towards the World, installation view, Sophie Tappeiner, 2019. Courtesy of Sophie Tappeiner and the artists. Copyright: www.kunst-dokumentation.com
Being Towards the World, installation view, Sophie Tappeiner, 2019. Courtesy of Sophie Tappeiner and the artists. Copyright: www.kunst-dokumentation.com
Sophie Jung, Or am I to become a corpse?, 2019, varnish on glass, dimensions variable. Courtesy of Sophie Tappeiner and the artist. Copyright: www.kunst-dokumentation.com
Sophie Jung, Or am I to become a corpse?, 2019, (detail). Courtesy of Sophie Tappeiner and the artist. Copyright: www.kunst-dokumentation.com
Being Towards the World
with this organic trauma and this visceral joy.
The body senses world and saves world.
Its experiences make up the complex structure of the selves
we use to negotiate life.
Bodies, unruly, defiant and fractured, insistently plastic and
stubbornly present, carry forth their memories in
unpredictable ways.
This vessel of present identities and past becomings
is moved
by what has occured to it while itself occuring onto others.
My body
Writes into your flesh
The poem
You make of me. (1)
(1) Audre Lorde