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Chapter Three: Potentialities - Growing Out of Damaged Ground

June 25 – July 17, 2021

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Elke Marhöfer

Too Close, Too Far

16 mm transferred to HD
19 min 34 sec
Courtesy of the artist

Too Close, Too Far is a gathering of moments of a multispecies household in Japan. Beyond the linearity of a narrative, the camera follows passivities and activities of this micro economy. Overshadowed by the death of one and the sickness of another inhabitant, the film images weave themselves into the rhythm of the vital instability of the everyday—whereas the sound connects to us the life of the wider surroundings.

  • Too Close, Too Far, 16 mm transferred to HD, 19 min 34 sec, courtesy of the artist
  • Too Close, Too Far, 16 mm transferred to HD, 19 min 34 sec, courtesy of the artist
  • Too Close, Too Far, 16 mm transferred to HD, 19 min 34 sec, courtesy of the artist

Elke Marhöfer

Andrea

2020
Ceramics
Courtesy of the artist

  • Andrea, 2020, Ceramics, courtesy of the artist
  • Andrea, 2020, Ceramics, courtesy of the artist

Made with a hand-build technique, Andrea is a collection of functional domestic stoneware.   
Made by a single person, Andrea is also a collaboration with the multitude of matter and soil.
Forming domestic cups and bowls, Andrea enacts the “other” of modern art, but also signals the abandonment of the modern hierarchical differences between craft and art. Art is always just the expression of a human and a nonhuman entering into an exchange of things and images.