Swantje La Moutte
Source
29. Januar – 14. März 2010

During the preparation of the this exhibition, we witness a massive shift in the histories of a number of countries. There are civil wars in Syria, Iraq, Libya, Ukraine, bombings in Israel and Palestine, Ebola in Africa. The news are overflowing with disastrous reporting and are too short for all of them. News are often followed by an action film where facts melts into fiction.

An imaginary area, fragmented in a Cartesian configuration, extends beyond the given pentamerous exhibition-space.

With black fountain pen ink the artist herself paints one ceiling and four separate walls, each pointing a different cardinal direction. Surrounded by whitened architectural surfaces, fluid and flow reveal traces of simultaneous pasts in a savage dimension –the appearance of which resembles as it were pristine vegetation-structures or satellite-pictures of oceanic landscapes.
Unconceivable from a static perspective, visitors are invited to explore this measureless sculpture by the immediate experience of an immenseness of their corporal motions in distinct time.

With a specific emphasis on the expansive interaction of neurons and muscles this experimental, geographically unbound locus challenges the tension in between singular physical movements and space(-vitalization), as well as the very momentum of writing.

An eponymous, less ephemeral artist book dilates the work.

Previous exhibitions of Swantje La Moutte (*1980) took place at e.g. Kunsthalle Basel (2008), Zendai Museum of Modern Art Shanghai (2006), Kunstverein Hannover (2005) and Musée d'art moderne et contemporain Genève (2004).