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On higher ground, levitating, 2023 Vera Kox
Location: Rotondes | 3, place des Rotondes Flags and banners often mark territorial claims and national boundaries. Vera Kox’s flags, on the other hand, depict an imaginary landscape of organic matter woven into industrially patterned ceramic surfaces from the artist’s sculptural repertoire. Lichens, algae, mosses, and fungi are among the first species to grow on…
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Safe Space Federation, 2023 Lagerkultur
Locations:LUCA – Luxembourg Center for Architecture | 1, rue de la Tour JacobCorner avenue de la Liberté / Avenue de la GareSchluechthaus | Porte de Hollerich Safe Space Federation is a mentally driven campaign inviting individuals to build moments of peaceful excitement. It consists of a series of three installations, designed as abstractly defined spaces,…
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Apparatus 22, Everything at a distance becomes abstraction, 2024
With so many man-made catastrophes befalling and wars raging (close and afar), instantly shared in countless images and videos, a modern-day wanderer finds itself powerlessly contemplating not the sublime, but the horrors of human nature and the eerie landscapes of injustice. Mutating a famed Novalis musing “Everything at a distance turns into / becomes poetry:…
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Rachel Bacon, The disappearing mountain (Limburg, 1945), 2024
“Only once we imagined the world as dead could we dedicate ourselves to making it so.” – Ben Ehrenreich On invitation of Kunsthaus NRW, Krista Jantowski (artistic researcher at the Reading Room / Greylight Projects) initiated Meeting You In The Margins, a carefully curated selection of books that approach environmental destruction, processes of extraction, and…
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Yann Freichels, Trotz alledem!, 2024
The flag by Yann Freichels is a drawing entitled Trotz Alledem [In spite of it all]. It is based on a photograph of Karl Liebknecht, a prominent German socialist and anti-militarist, taken after his assassination. The flag in the drawing transitions from dark (almost black) at the top to light at the bottom, resembling a…
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Dorothy Hendriks, DOROTHYMANIA, 2024
Dorothy is in here, in dorothymania, her own abundance of queer identity making up for her own lost history through sheer quantity in images appropriated from her surroundings and interests. then chewed on and regurgitated onto paper and then collaged into the image of a flag. Dorothy (a.k.a. dorothyinhell) Hendriks is a transwoman and multi-disciplinary…
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The signature of LDH, 2024, Lars den Hertog
The signature artistic signature of the artist Lars den Hertog (LDH) signature carefully. As an inspirational point a believed coat of arms of his family was taken. The real coat of arms would surface later after the signature was already completed. The androgynous figures in relation to the plants, candles and skull, which make up…
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Eloïse Lega, En voie de disparition, 2019 – 2023
Eloïse Lega is a multidisciplinary artist who combines traditional techniques like engraving, photography, drawing, etc. with digital techniques like video, electronics, laser engraving, in her installations. Her concerns revolve around the themes of disappearance, the passage of time and the fragility of life. Where am I standing? in the face of inevitable time? En voie…
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Zoé Médard, libérer l’amour, 2024
Inspired by the popular tradition where a padlock attached to a bridge’s fence is believed to seal eternal love between two people, the artwork questions the symbol of unique and monogamous love and its restrictive nature. Here, the padlocks do not bear personal initials but rather the manufacturer’s brand, generic and insignificant. It is the…
