Suspended Times
Dzialdov, Berlin
11 March - 02 April 2023
We died of Anxiety
‘cos they threatened us with Darkness
as if it would even exist
(excerpt from Eclisse, 2023)
Suspended Times develops from the poem Eclisse (2023), in which a posthumous narrative voice becomes a meditation on the human condition. Displayed in printed form, the text is engraved across the walls, surfacing as ghostly appearances.
Suspended Times develops from the poem Eclisse (2023), in which a posthumous narrative voice becomes a meditation on the human condition. The text is displayed in printed form and engraved across the walls, where it surfaces as ghostly appearances.
The exhibition deals with loss, deterioration, and becoming, across both emotional and material landscapes. Moving through broken marble, copper pipes, paintings on concrete, droning sounds, fragments of poetry, and the scent of embers, the visitor arrives at a contemplative encounter with their own inner states. Unifying the works, the sub-frequency soundscape Untitled Sequence in D is a presence felt as much as heard, grounding the exhibition's darker themes in the present.
Accompanying the exhibition, the artist self-published a booklet also titled Eclisse (2023), bringing together the poem, images from the installation Natura Morta con Eclisse, and fragments of marble and granite from the same work. Printed in an edition of 40 copies, each contains one fragment of stone, one for each year of the artist's life at the time of the exhibition.
Natura Morta con Eclisse, detail, 2023
Natura Morta con Eclisse, installation detail at Dzialdov, Berlin, 2023
video by Nicolas Rupcich
Natura Morta con Eclisse, installation detail, 2023
Suspended Times, installation detail, 2023
Suspended Times, installation detail, 2023
Natura Morta con Eclisse, installation detail, 2023
uspended Times, installation detail, 2023
Suspended Times, Dzialdov, Berlin, 2023
video by Nicolas Rupcich
Natura Morta con Eclisse, installation detail, 2023
Inferno 4, detail
Left on wall: Per Aspera ad Aspera, concrete, pastels on canvas, 18 x 24 cm, 2023 - Santo Niente, paper cut-up, 40 x 50 cm, 2003
Right on wall: Inferno 4, concrete, collage, pastels, acrylic paint on canvas, 90 x 100 cm, 2020
Center on floor: Natura Morta con Eclisse, marble and granite debris, dried flowers, pomegranate, image cut-up, inkjet prints, 2023
Center on wall: Kaputt Mundi, concrete, pigments, pastels on canvas, 90 x 100 cm, 2019
Eclisse, poem, inkjet print on 160 gr paper and engravings on walls, installation view, 2023
Eclisse, poem, inkjet print on 160 gr paper and engravings on walls, installation view, 2023
Inferno 4, concrete, collage, pastels, acrylic paint on canvas, 90 x 100 cm, 2020
Per Aspera ad Aspera, concrete, pastels on canvas, 18 x 24 cm, 2023
. Santo Niente, paper cut-up, 40 x 50 cm, 2003
Eclisse, artist booklet, 10 x 15 cm, exhibition edition of 40 copies, 2023
Eclisse, artist booklet and excerpt of the poem, 2023