Alles in Ordnung?

        Graduate Master exhibition

Otto-Decker-Straße 2
Idar-Oberstein, Germany

        7. – 20. July 2017

Nothing is as it seems. Nothing is where it should be. Is everything okay? It’s like a post-human “paradise,” where only stone remains alongside the traces of human activity, manufacture, and moments of human relaxation by the pool. A dialogue—or perhaps a dance—between nature and culture, real and unreal, fast and slow, hard and soft, old and new. Each object holds an intention, a reason for being there… or does it?

Is a cast plastic pineapple, spray-painted silver, made in a factory in China, and purchased from a shop in Germany, still a pineapple? What does this pineapple represent? A type of paradise? A fleeting glimpse or moment? An escape from everyday life, encapsulated in the pure meaning of the object—sitting there on someone’s dining table? “Sail away with me to a better place!” A promise, perhaps.

Our culture, shaped by the re-appropriation of objects, is deeply rooted in a capitalist ideology that encourages us to believe that “alles in Ordnung”—everything is fine.