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LIMINAL STATES: HANNA-MARIA HAMMARI, AGATA INGARDEN, CATHY JOSEFOWITZ, KYUNG-ME, TAU LEWIS, MAINA-MIRIAM MUNSKY

Past exhibition
30 November 2019 - 22 February 2020
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Installation Views
  • TAU LEWIS, CATHY JOSEFOWITZ exhibition view, Liminal States, Kraupa-Tuskany Zeidler, Berlin 2019-2020

    TAU LEWIS, CATHY JOSEFOWITZ
    exhibition view, Liminal States, Kraupa-Tuskany Zeidler, Berlin 2019-2020

  • CATHY JOSEFOWITZ exhibition view, Liminal States, Kraupa-Tuskany Zeidler, Berlin 2019-2020

    CATHY JOSEFOWITZ
    exhibition view, Liminal States, Kraupa-Tuskany Zeidler, Berlin 2019-2020

  • AGATA INGARDEN, HANNA-MARIA HAMMARI exhibition view, Liminal States, Kraupa-Tuskany Zeidler, Berlin 2019-2020

    AGATA INGARDEN, HANNA-MARIA HAMMARI
    exhibition view, Liminal States, Kraupa-Tuskany Zeidler, Berlin 2019-2020

  • KYUNG-ME, HANNA-MARIA HAMMARI, MAINA-MIRIAM MUNSKY exhibition view, Liminal States, Kraupa-Tuskany Zeidler, Berlin 2019-2020

    KYUNG-ME, HANNA-MARIA HAMMARI, MAINA-MIRIAM MUNSKY

    exhibition view, Liminal States, Kraupa-Tuskany Zeidler, Berlin 2019-2020

  • KYUNG-ME, TAU LEWIS exhibition view, Liminal States, Kraupa-Tuskany Zeidler, Berlin 2019-2020

    KYUNG-ME, TAU LEWIS
    exhibition view, Liminal States, Kraupa-Tuskany Zeidler, Berlin 2019-2020

  • MIRIAM MANIA MUNSKY, HANNA MARIA HAMMARI exhibition view, Liminal States, Kraupa-Tuskany Zeidler, Berlin 2019-2020

    MIRIAM MANIA MUNSKY, HANNA MARIA HAMMARI
    exhibition view, Liminal States, Kraupa-Tuskany Zeidler, Berlin 2019-2020

  • MIRIAM MANIA MUNSKY, HANNA MARIA HAMMARI exhibition view, Liminal States, Kraupa-Tuskany Zeidler, Berlin 2019-2020

    MIRIAM MANIA MUNSKY, HANNA MARIA HAMMARI
    exhibition view, Liminal States, Kraupa-Tuskany Zeidler, Berlin 2019-2020

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Works
  • Agata Ingarden - Diplome-8561- HD
    Agata Ingarden, The Screen, 2018
  • Cathy Josefowitz, Sans titre, 1979
    Cathy Josefowitz, Sans titre, 1979
  • Cathy Josefowitz, Sans titre, 1979
    Cathy Josefowitz, Sans titre, 1979
  • Cathy Josefowitz, Sans titre, 1980
    Cathy Josefowitz, Sans titre, 1980
  • Kyung-Me, Copy Kitty, 2017
    Kyung-Me, Copy Kitty, 2017
  • Kyung-Me, Copy Kitty, 2017
    Kyung-Me, Copy Kitty, 2017
  • Tau Lewis, Devil Ray, 2019
    Tau Lewis, Devil Ray, 2019
  • 2019 Kraupa-Tuskany Zeidler65570 photo__def_image
    Maina-Miriam Munsky, Fertilität IV, 1967
  • 2019 Kraupa-Tuskany Zeidler65580 photo__def_image
    Maina-Miriam Munsky, Geburt III, 1967
  • 2019 Kraupa-Tuskany Zeidler65756 photo__def_image
    Maina-Miriam Munsky, Nach London Fahren, 1975
  • 2019 Kraupa-Tuskany Zeidler65688 photo__def_image
    Hanna-Maria Hammari, Untitled, 2019
  • 2019 Kraupa-Tuskany Zeidler65714 photo__def_image
    Hanna-Maria Hammari, Untitled, 2019
  • 2019 Kraupa-Tuskany Zeidler65668 photo__def_image
    Hanna-Maria Hammari, Untitled, 2019
  • 2019 Kraupa-Tuskany Zeidler65657 photo__def_image
    Hanna-Maria Hammari, Untitled, 2019
  • 2019 Kraupa-Tuskany Zeidler65727 photo__def_image
    Hanna-Maria Hammari, Untitled, 2019
  • 2019 Kraupa-Tuskany Zeidler65735 photo__def_image
    Hanna-Maria Hammari, Untitled, 2019
  • 2019 Kraupa-Tuskany Zeidler65734 photo__def_image
    Hanna-Maria Hammari, Untitled, 2019
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Press release

We tend to think our minds are in control of our corporeal selves, but the body breathes without our consent or cooperation. We’re always with, and inseparable from, our bodies. Its permeable form sometimes makes it difficult to identify its boundaries, where cognition is extended beyond the physique. The fear of the wound (trauma) reminds us both how our bodies contain and our minds betray us. In ‘Liminal States’, four contemporary and two historical artistic positions trace different topographies of the self and its(post)corporeal manifestations.

 

Maina-Miriam Munsky’s ‘Nach London Fahren’, 1975 is a still image based on a photo taken by the artist: a painfully clinical depiction of a limp female body on a hospital operating table at the doctor’s mercy. On the composite canvases of ‘Fertiliät IV’, 1967 and ‘Geburt III’, 1967 the light rose and yellow embryonic shapes foreshadow the immemorial vigor through which a body separates from another in order to become. Munsky’s early works reinforce a boundary between I and m/Other.

 

The coiling tentacles of Hanna-Maria Hammari’s ceramics caught in tightly stretched latex dig deep into our ambiguous feelings towards the flesh. Another set of ceramic sculptures intensifies the psychic tension, leaving uncertain whether they are designed to protect or harm the body. Their solid metal-like appearance stands in stark contrast with the inherent fragility of the glazed ceramic material.

 

The bold figurative pastel drawings from 1979–1981 by Cathy Josefowitz scrutinize the body in motion. Echoing her work as a dancer and choreographer, the hybrid bodies display themselves in struggle and ease, punctuated by colored marks. By using body language as her painterly vocabulary, Josefowitz releases an almost uncanny strength and confidence that lies in extending the self to the multiple and the strange.

 

Tau Lewis’ sculpture ‘devil ray’ floats gracefully, with winglike fins, over the floor. Its body is a quilted assemblage of textiles, resembling a portrait of the tropical waters it may have once inhabited. The ray’s humanoid face is carved out of plaster and has a strange aura, like a totem, standing in for a social body rather than an individual one. Drawing on the tradition of freedom quilts, Lewis overcomes the idea of portraiture to embody a collective identity.

 

Kyung-Me’s intricate graphite drawings in the autobiographical series ‘Copy Kitty’ explore the capricious qualities of obsessive romantic relationships. Like the protagonists in Kristen Roupenian’s controversial short story ‘Cat Person’ from 2017, the figure displays ambiguous, paranoid yet earnest feelings of infatuation. Set in outlandish scenes, ‘Copy Kitty’ encounters the gaze of the lover and its own reflection in the mirror, recognizing itself as alien.

 

Agata Ingarden’s work explores the relationship between personal experience and a shared understanding of how the world is perceived. Memories are never just a recollection of something but also always of somebody. ‘The Screen’ – ‘the retina of the mind’s eye’ – receives and converts the signals from the outside world to be processed by our brains and digested by our bodies. Crystallized salt settles on the acoustic foam of ‘The Screen’, absorbing and preserving sensations. Sticky butterfly wings tremble gently–like the skin that forms on the surface of warm milk.

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