Curtain, Song, Performance, Stedefreund Berlin 2010
As part of the exhibition Drizzle with Astrid Busch, Judith Karcheter and Max Sudhues
Words evoke images that are charged with meaning. The term “drizzle” refers to a light rain falling in fine drops that often restricts visibility. Read metaphorically, “drizzle” could refer to a condition in which our perceptions are fragmentary at best, interfering with our ability to definitively categorize common, everyday perceptions. Our view of the familiar is obstructed, muddled, undermined, engulfed by unfamiliarexperiences. Between unmediated experience, emotional entanglement and unexpected memories, new associative narratives emerge. Something is shifted, brought to light in a different way and thereby enriched with projections and fantasies. A sphere is opened up in which reality and fiction—consciously or unconsciously—are mysteriously interwoven.
Using photography, light collage, film installation and performance, Astrid Busch, Judith Karcheter and Max Sudhues transform the exhibition space into an open and imaginary setting akin to a theatrical environment, in which the actual space of the exhibition situation, the composed image and the constructed reality of the viewer all interact.In the charged field between the staged and the seemingly documentary, the associative montages of images are condensed into a poetic whole that refers to something while remaining impenetrable and open to a range of interpretations. The absence of language appeals to those irrational faculties that can be articulated only with difficulty: memory, imagination and feeling. The pieces resemble landscapes of feeling that both enchant and disenchant. Within them, we move without haste on dreamy waves, below us the menace of what is hidden underneath.
Text: Anne Fäser, Translation: Patrick Hubenthal
