Friday, August 10, 2012

HAUSRAT / HOUSEHOLD ASSETS - ALEXANDRA BIRCKEN - Hamburger Kunstverein - Hamburg


through September 2nd 2012

The title of the exhibition, Hausrat, meaning "household assets" or "household objects", can be taken literally. The assortment of objects filling the exhibition space all have to do with household and home in one way or another. Many are plucked straight from the domestic environment – such as ironing boards, sledge runners and carpets – while others play on associations of domesticity or convey the sense of "home" as something offering cover and shelter. Detritus that would generally be regarded as refuse is given a new, modified form: Sweepings are permanently preserved in latex and shrivelled fruit and dried leaves are arranged into still lifes to produce what might be called "inventory snapshots" of domesticity frozen in time. Fittingly, one of the pieces featured in the show is entitled "Accumuli", while another is called "DNA" (both from 2012). 


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