CONNECTING SPACES PT.2
LOST IN TRANSLATION
VORWERKSTIFT HAMBURG
Opening Friday 23.5.2025 19h
Exhibition Sat. 24.9. – Sun. 25.9. 14 – 20h
Eintritt frei / free entrance
Sound-Performance with Homero Alonso Sun. 25.5.2025 16h
Eintritt frei / free entrance
Connecting Spaces Pt. 2
Lost in Translation
This exhibition is about space.
More specifically, about the space you are in right now. This gallery space, the space surrounding this building, which flows seamlessly into the space of the city, the country, and eventually extends into the global space, which embraces us and everything around us so generously!
I call this space Substanzraum – the space of substance!
Lost in Translation is the exhibition title.
Semantics of Space the bigger context – a niche in my current research. A wondering about a language of space. This language is probably highly ambiguous and diverse in its logic — not a homogeneous language made of specific words with specific meaning. This language may function on a pure level of semantics, which itself is constantly changing.
Nevertheless, let’s dare the experiment to dive into this language as we see what is around us right now — not criticizing, simply looking!
Walking, searching, thinking, measuring, observing, documenting, collecting — finding absurdity in all of these actions, but puzzled, recognizing that:
“In the language of the stone, I understand the weight of the atmosphere!”
And what does that mean? Thus, again, we find ourselves: “Lost in Translation”.
In this little exhibition, I will present a newly automated version of my reactive soundscape Ort als Impuls (place as impulse), where space and presence engage in a fragile sonic dialogue.
Also on view, is a selection of found objects from my artistic research project Semantics of Space.
The exhibition is accompanied by the short film Forma Livre (Free Form) by Clara Ianni, opening up a dialogue around the (ab)use of materials and human labor in the construction of space.
On Sunday, Homero Alonso will improvise on the electric guitar, engaging with my reactive soundscape Ort als Impuls.
*Many thanks to Clara Ianni, Homero Alonso, Pedro Torres, and Yan for their contributions and support.