Contesting alternative epistemes and multiple connections with the environment
Date : Nov 3 - 4
Opening hours : Nov 3 6pm - 11pm
Nov 4 12pm - 6pm (Performance 4pm)
Venue : Culterim Gallery
(Brunnenstr. 105, First Floor, Next to the Kaufland)
The exhibition invites us to merge into the intersection between different practices and practitioners within the cultural and natural sphere. The three artists transform the exhibition space into an active listening space of suspension and transition, a place for imagination that proposes multiple temporalities and cultivates different relationships with the environment. A continuum of ancestral spiritual and oral traditions that fall on a world with no ground, where the tides and waves carry stories and dreams that kept silent. Daily life transforms into a virtual network where political and cultural interactions exist only through imagination and speculation. With suspension, retreating, and silence, we wish to create a space of listening, resting, and comforting.
Cau Silva drifts among landscapes, objects, and gestures of everyday life, evoking failures and refusals. Through installations, videos, and performances, individual memories and collective mythologies are dissolved between reality and dream, intimacy and strangeness. Born in Brazil, she has a degree in Social Sciences from São Paulo's State University (UNESP) and a Master in Spatial Strategies at the Weißensee Kunsthochschule Berlin. She is currently living in Berlin.
Website: causilva.com
Instagram: causilva.k
Let ourselves remain in the cracks of sleep, where dream and rest are practices of a post-future world without ground. In this scenario, hammocks and pillows are the foundation of politics and culture. These entities are the soul of a virtual network based only on imagination and speculation. In this suspended world, the inhabitants find themselves weaving their own reality and being prey to it. The story of the World with No Ground is nourished by lazy superheroines and parables on precious objects and plants that once belonged to the ordinary urban landscape. What would happen if small bodies made an uprising en masse? Which networks hold us from collapsing? And which collapses build our reality?
Danielle Shoufra is a choreographer, an artist, and a mother, based in Berlin at the moment.
In her work Danielle questions where and how we acquire knowledge and how different doctrines apply to us. Danielle investigates the relationship between the individual body and social structures; researching how private memories can crack the ethos of the institutional or collective memory and creates new orders in space.
Website: danielleshoufra.com
In My Mother’s Mother Tongue,I delve into the intersection of immigration, cultural evolution, and natural history. I examine how my culture is transferred, perpetuated, and transformed as it travels through diverse geographies and landscapes. I Examine what endures and what is lost during these transitions.
Through a botanical lens of the Tradescantia Zabrina plant, AKA "The Wandering Jew”, I deconstruct my ancestral heritage as a Jewish woman navigating the diaspora experience. I investigate the movement and migration of the Tradescantia Zabrina plant, which journeyed from Central America to establish itself across Europe, the USA, and Africa in some cases as an invasive species, drawing intriguing parallels with the Jewish diaspora movement.
Yuni (Hoa Yun) Chung is a berlin-based artist, works with object, drawing, performance, video, sound and text. In her practice, she uses metaphors to create a space in wich multiple media and different social contexts are interwoven, revealing the structural violence without replicating it. Since 2022, she has co-founded in Chōri (調理/조리) Collective, and explores how our body harmonizes as a part of food with our own flavors and opens the possibility of discomposing the current structures.
Website: yunichung.com
Insta: yuni_hoayun_chung
How do we understand the silence and create rhythms within it?
Tidal Swamp is an installation that interprets the different temporalities of film and objects as Flow and Ebb tides, creating a space of Waves(Sound). It draws on research into Korea’s tidal flat, the history surrounding the sea, and images of water-women-silence, to transform the exhibition space into an active listening space that oscillate with the audience.