3/31/2024 0 Comments Clockwork Survivors instal![]() ![]() It is comprised of photographs and text pieces in conjunction with antique clockwork key-wind tin toys and a custom-fabricated, painted-metal automaton that performs in a large mahogany vitrine. The show is conceived to provide viewers with the integrated experience of an art installation, but it is also presented as a group of autonomous works, each standing on its own outside the context of the exhibition. ![]() THE BIRD THAT MADE THE BREEZE TO BLOW challenges conventional assumptions about the boundaries between artistic production, collecting, curating, and exhibiting. This show marks Hendeles’s identity transition from exhibition-making as a curator to exhibition-making as an artist. This Berlin exhibition conjures the past from the vantage point of the present, offering a personal perspective on a postwar culture uniquely defined by high expectations and hopes for the future, while also laden with heavy burdens and responsibilities. As in earlier shows, her artistic decisions are inspired and informed by her interest in human gregariousness and our inclination to bond in pairs and in groups, defining ourselves by alliances determined by design or by fate. Renowned for her pioneering site-specific installations staging contemporary art, found objects, and historical artifacts, the Toronto-based Hendeles’s debut show in Berlin continues her interpretative exploration of cultural iconography to explore dualities and power relations and in particular the power dynamics of the group in relation to the individual. Johann König, Berlin is pleased to present THE BIRD THAT MADE THE BREEZE TO BLOW, the first show by German-born, Canadian exhibition maker Ydessa Hendeles as an artist. ![]()
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