looking for connection
Installation 2022, stone, metal, ceramic, photography
Museum Moderner Kunst MMK Wörlen Passau
Looking for Connection shows the search for a connection with the non-human world, for timeless support that stones can provide. The installation consists of ceramics that could serve as vessels and yet have no immediately recognizable use. Inspired by a text by Ursula K. Le Guin, the artist explores the significance of containers.
Le Guin writes: "I now propose the bottle as hero". It was not the heroic male hunt with bow and arrow that allowed our ancestors to survive, but the search, collection and hoarding of food. This required containers, nets, bags, jugs, pots and bowls. They enclose, catch, hold and can become a companion.
In the exhibition, they are surrounded by photographs taken by the artist on her travels. She experiences the feeling of the individual's insignificance in the temporal progress of things in her encounters with nature.
River landscapes shaped by masses of water, stones made greasy by centuries of contact or metal rods drilled into stone.
The artist is particularly interested in the physical visualization of the connections between nature, time and human beings. Thus, looking for connection is an approach to questions about historical (dis)connection, the interior of a stone, one's own perspective in the structure and dealing with change.
Visitors are invited to touch the objects "Who is ruling our dreams" and "Sculpture without a head", to crawl into them, hide, linger and surrender to their own physicality.