
Installation view
Amber
Amber
Solo exhibition, Braennen, Berlin, 2.8. – 23.8.2015
Like ships or floes, three mattresses lie on the floor of the exhibition space. They are wrapped in fitted bedsheets, which have been dyed with quotations using a batik process. Resting on them, visitors can let themselves drift. Folding screens held together by power cords surround the mattresses. During opening hours, attendees are read aloud texts encompassing themes such as ancestry, depletion, cultural entrenchment, class, utopia, and their transgression. Between each reading the space is rearranged, which, along with the different associations provoked by the text, creates a warm but ephemeral atmosphere at the limits of tangibility.
The ambiguities of the installation reflect the ambiguity of the word “amber”, which refers both to the fossilized tree resin gemstone and to ambergris, a substance that used to be important for the manufacture of perfume and is derived from sperm whales’ stomach contents. While amber suggests healing a wound, encapsulating and conserving, ambergris results from the metamorphosis of indigestible bone fragments through weathering and processing into a valuable eroticizing fragrance. Both substances share a connection to the sea, for before their provenance was known, they could only be found washed up on the shore.
- 2.8.2015, Jörg Markowski reads River Without Banks by Hans Henny Jahnn
- 7.8.2015, Vince Tillotson reads Orlando by Virginia Woolf
- 8.8.2015, Eric Jones reads Close to the Knifes by David Wojnarowicz
- 9.8.2015, Tucké Royale reads fairy tales by Hans-Christian Andersen
- 14.8.2015, Michaela Meise reads Pretty Honest by Sali Hughes
- 15.8.2015, Alicia Agustín reads How to Be Gay? by David Halperin
- 16.8.2015, Daniel Cremer and Heike-Karin Föll read the interview with Jean Genet by Hubert Fichte
- 21.8.2015, Nicholas Courtman reads Maurice by E.M. Forster
- 22.8.2015, Dirck Linck reads Sheeper by Irving Rosenthal
- 23.8.2015, Raoul Klooker reads So schön by Ronald M. Schernikau

Jörg Markowski reads
River Without Banks by Hans Henny Jahnn
2.8.2015

Vince Tillotson reads
Orlando by Virginia Woolf
7.8.2015

Eric Jones reads
Close to the Knifes by David Wojnarowicz
8.8.2015

Tucké Royale reads
fairy tales by Hans-Christian Andersen
9.8.2015

Michaela Meise reads
Pretty Honest by Sali Hughes
14.8.2015

Alicia Agustín reads
How to Be Gay? by David Halperin
15.8.2015

Daniel Cremer and Heike-Karin Föll read
the interview with Jean Genet by Hubert Fichte
16.8.2015

Nicholas Courtman reads
Maurice by E.M. Forster
21.8.2015

Dirck Linck reads
Sheeper by Irving Rosenthal
22.8.2015

Raoul Klooker reads
So schön by Ronald M. Schernikau
23.8.2015