Solar Anus / High Water
Exhibition curated by Mire Lee & Isabel Alexandra Meldner
Aktsaal & Brühlsche Galerie at University of Fine Arts Dresden
The Solar Anus is a short surrealist text by the French writer Georges Bataille, written in 1927. Its aphorisms refer to decay and excrement while playfully overlapping the powerful energy of the Sun that brings life into the Earth. Aktsaal is the room where anatomy and drawing classes are held, and has the character of a cabinet of curiosities; cosy, dark, and like a trip back in time. In this intimate surrounding, works placed here carry a mysterious yet unrestrained vitality.
Photographies © Paul Barsch
Five Small And Big Cabbage White Butterflies
2024
five butterflies, display shell with background light, acrylic glass, foil, 5.5 x 29,5cm x 35,5cm
Walking Stick Cabbage
2024
1,5 x 51,5 x 142 cm, dried hand grown cabbage, wood, lacquer, brass, rubber, LED panel
Five butterflies were cocooning and being born in Walking Stick Cabbage while the cabbage was drying in the artist's studio. They fed on sugar water and lived for about three weeks. This piece dreams of the end of the world as we know it, dreams of a new society where everything that is alive or a host to living species is treated like god. It dreams of each of us being a bean sleeping still in its skin, and of being devoured by a wild animal and resting inside its warm stomach.