through December 12th 2011
(Re-)using common materials which can be salvaged from urban space or sourced from outmoded stock, Klara Lidén’s practice involves a notion of practical recycling. There is no ‘aura’ of past times, no sense of nostalgia in the vintage system of pump and hoses she retools to construct a closed circuit of water running through the central installation in her first solo exhibition at Neu, which is also her first solo exhibition in Berlin. Rather, this equipment somewhat pragmatically serves to set up a compact temporary structure, to claim space inside the gallery space. It is ‘animated’ by an internal dynamic, the flow of the water that guarantees volume and stability, suggesting a strong sense of presence, which is heightened by the sound that fills the rooms.
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