David Ilzhöfer
Honey, it's not what you think!
Project Info
- 💙 Orangerie Munich
- 🖤 David Ilzhöfer
- 💜 David Ilzhöfer lives and works in Munich, Germany. He mixes personal myth with found objects into paintings and sculptures.
- 💛 Studio Tacke
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Ein Ruhepunkt in der bewegten Handlung des Dramas. Sweaty armpits, tight throat, cracking knuckles, the indomitable desire is brewing in the stomach: you are inventing a story right now, with several possible plots run parallel. Bursting out of restless rehearsal in your head, you raise your voice: “Honey, it’s not what you think!”
Quoted from common dialogues in movies and TV series, the exhibition title celebrates the phantasmagoric oscillation not only among facts and fictions, but also the animate and inanimate. Preliminary identities are sketched into ephemeral existence by choreographed walk-in case studies, populated with fictional alternatives of family members, the transgenerational inheritance, imitations of transformational moments and objects charged with personal myth and misunderstanding. When you tiptop along changing routes, various lines of sight mix between the sculptures and images, making the works viewable sequentially or collectively. Instead of coherent stories under fixed gaze, flows of constantly recalibrated associations adhere to your moving body.
The exhibition orbits around the arbitrary nature of identity and involuntary heritage. Permeable narrative perspectives unfold among a dynamic whole of paintings and sculptures that temporarily gives rise to transient situations.
David Ilzhöfer lives and works in Munich, Germany. He mixes personal myth with found objects into paintings and sculptures.