Archive 2021 KubaParis

Eifersucht

Installation view, Eifersucht, Parliament, Paris
Installation view, Eifersucht, Parliament, Paris
Installation view, Eifersucht, Parliament, Paris
Installation view, Eifersucht, Parliament, Paris
Installation view, Eifersucht, Parliament, Paris
Installation view, Eifersucht, Parliament, Paris
Installation view, Eifersucht, Parliament, Paris
Installation view, Eifersucht, Parliament, Paris
ici Wu, Go with the flow (make the world easier to understand, not complex to hide things), 2018 - 2021, Mathmos lava lamp,     	       arduino, electronic board, light data of film Tempting Heart (1999), cardboard, clay figurine of a woman, fabrics of dolls, neck-  	       lace, dimensions variable
ici Wu, Go with the flow (make the world easier to understand, not complex to hide things), 2018 - 2021, Mathmos lava lamp, arduino, electronic board, light data of film Tempting Heart (1999), cardboard, clay figurine of a woman, fabrics of dolls, neck- lace, dimensions variable
Gerrit Frohne-Brinkmann, +1 , 2015, UV printing on honeycomb cardboard, stainless steel, 192 x 44 x 29 cm
Gerrit Frohne-Brinkmann, +1 , 2015, UV printing on honeycomb cardboard, stainless steel, 192 x 44 x 29 cm
Charlotte Dualé, GO MAN GO, 2013, glazed ceramic and whey powder box , 105 x 25,8 cm
Charlotte Dualé, GO MAN GO, 2013, glazed ceramic and whey powder box , 105 x 25,8 cm
Henri Matisse, Odalisque couchée, 1928, Ink on paper, 33 x 50,7 cm
Henri Matisse, Odalisque couchée, 1928, Ink on paper, 33 x 50,7 cm
Flame, The Brain Machine, 2020, Laminated digital print on PVC mounted on acyrlic glass, 76 x 76 x 14 cm
Flame, The Brain Machine, 2020, Laminated digital print on PVC mounted on acyrlic glass, 76 x 76 x 14 cm
Josephine Reisch, Birkin 35 Niloticus Crocodile Fuchsia, 2020, Oil on paper, wood frame, 152 x 122 cm
Josephine Reisch, Birkin 35 Niloticus Crocodile Fuchsia, 2020, Oil on paper, wood frame, 152 x 122 cm
Installation view, Eifersucht, Galerie Noah Klink, Berlin
Installation view, Eifersucht, Galerie Noah Klink, Berlin
Installation view, Eifersucht, Galerie Noah Klink, Berlin
Installation view, Eifersucht, Galerie Noah Klink, Berlin
Installation view, Eifersucht, Galerie Noah Klink, Berlin
Installation view, Eifersucht, Galerie Noah Klink, Berlin
Installation view, Eifersucht, Galerie Noah Klink, Berlin
Installation view, Eifersucht, Galerie Noah Klink, Berlin
Alfredo Aceto, Loggia, 2021, red and white neons, 150 x 2,5 cm
Alfredo Aceto, Loggia, 2021, red and white neons, 150 x 2,5 cm
Desbouis – Haters, 2021 Latex print on satin print 56,3 x 75 cm
Desbouis – Haters, 2021 Latex print on satin print 56,3 x 75 cm
Nile Koetting – Scene 2, 2021 Plexiglas LED, Spotlight, power adopter, wood, plastic, flower, powerbank Size Variable
Nile Koetting – Scene 2, 2021 Plexiglas LED, Spotlight, power adopter, wood, plastic, flower, powerbank Size Variable
Jessica Warboys – BURLE, 2020 Canvas acrylic 190 x 140 x 2,5 cm
Jessica Warboys – BURLE, 2020 Canvas acrylic 190 x 140 x 2,5 cm
Taslima Ahmed – Untitled (silkscreen), 2021, Silkscreen on Munken polar white paper 103 x 74,6 cm (framed) Edition of 20 + 5 AP
Taslima Ahmed – Untitled (silkscreen), 2021, Silkscreen on Munken polar white paper 103 x 74,6 cm (framed) Edition of 20 + 5 AP

Location

Parliament & Galerie Noah Klink

Date

05.03 –25.04.2021

Curator

Parliament, Galerie Noah Klink & Margareta von Oswald

Photography

Hans-Georg Gaul

Subheadline

Eifersucht Parliament and Galerie Noah Klink are pleased to announce their cooperation through the exhibition Eifersucht. Dedicated to the feeling of jealousy, this exhibition is the result of joint thinking with Margareta von Oswald, spanning both simultaneously spaces in Paris and Berlin. Eifersucht is an attempt to work in solidarity by sharing resources in times of limited international exchange. Galerie Noah Klink, Berlin March 6 - April 20, 2021 Alfredo Aceto Taslima Ahmed Pierre Bellot Kevin Desbouis Hakima El Djoudi Yngve Holen Nile Koetting Achraf Touloub Jessica Warboys Parliament, Paris March 20 - April 26, 2021 Alfredo Aceto Taslima Ahmed Pierre Bellot Gerrit Frohne-Brinkmann Kevin Desbouis Charlotte Dualé Flame Henri Matisse Josefine Reisch Jessica Warboys Cici Wu

Text

Eifersucht, A project organised by Parliament, Galerie Noah Klink and Margareta von Oswald. “Isn’t jealousy a subject once classically used and discussed in art, and now frowned upon?” A friend asked when I started to talk about the project we envisioned between Galerie Noah Klink and Parliament. She referred to a celebrated series of paintings on jealousy by Edvard Munch, in which jealousy is depicted in classic romantic terms by being triangular - the two lovers and the jealous third party. The emotions are depicted in the complementary colours green, associated with jealousy and envy, and red, associated with love and desire. She continued: “Munch, living within a bohemian circle of artists dedicated to free love and sexuality, saw the bright and dark sides of love and desire. Inseparably, one does not exist without the other. Now, I guess, we are expected to be able to love without jealousy and insecurity somehow.” This is a show which is dedicated to the feeling of jealousy. Jealousy is the desire to have, own, or represent what another has, owns, or represents, a desire never fulfilled. This desire can articulate feelings of anxiety, insecurity, unhappiness, or anger because someone has something or someone that you want. To be ruled by the envy of another equals a lack of generosity and kindness and reveals an insufficiency in self-love. This uneasy state of mind is at once omnipresent and so difficult to admit, and therefore something we find worth exploring. We chose the German term Eifersucht as the exhibition’s title because it etymologically reflects an economic dimension of jealousy which we also wanted to include. Eifersucht, literally, is composed of the terms ‘zeal’ (Eifer) and ‘addiction’(Sucht). Addiction highlights jealousy’s characteristic as being a by definition unattained, but passionate desire. Zeal, then, widens the scope from jealousy’s limited usage in romantic terms towards the desire to achieve. Zealous, mirroring its etymological origins in jealousy carries a connotation of excessive feeling, being uncompromisingly enthusiastic. Being excessively enthusiastic, we feel, reflects contemporary working conditions, and not only in the art world, in which we self-exploit to self-optimise to self-sell. In view of the sometimes imagined, but always stronger other, we aspire to be better, smarter, faster. Traditional objects of protection against the evil eye were a crucial point of departure for the selection of material for us. The evil eye signifies that looking at someone or something is a consequential act in itself. Without the object of protection, looking or observing might harm the object of contemplation, regardless of the observer’s intention. By casting a gaze, stare or look that is envious and ill-wishing, the jealous person inflicts harm upon the envied one. Taking this idea of the gaze as an action seriously, what are the consequences in our contemporary worlds, in which the intimate and the public are more and more interwoven? The mechanics of desire and thus, of jealousy, have become an increasingly important dimension of the economy and capital production. Instagram scrolling, social media exhibitionism and network voyeurism are dominated by indulging in FOMO and jealousy. We seem to live and die through our eyes.

Margareta von Oswald