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Aleksandra Cieślewicz, Asa Lee, Sara Lewi, Lena Seiz
Fictional Presence of Some Real Stories
Curator: Chih-Chien Wang
25.10-6.11.2022
Maison de la culture Janine-Sutto, Montreal
Fictional Presence of Some Real Stories
Curator: Chih-Chien Wang
25.10-6.11.2022
Maison de la culture Janine-Sutto, Montreal
By examining the perception of reality, the three artists explore blurred boundaries between fact and fiction. The works presented at the exhibition explore different forms of narrative in relation to the effect of time and distance.
The work of Sara Lewi, Calendar 1962-1985-2018, brings together three people who used the same calendar through 3 different times. The first person, Anne Noyer, took notes on the calendar in Paris in 1962, and the second person, Marek Antoni Kamiński, re-used the calendar during the communist time of Poland in Poznań in 1985. The last person is the artist Sara Lewi who commented on the realities of 1962 and 1985 and adding her own notes in 2018. These pages of the calendar show interwoven links amongst music, culture, politics and everyday life accompanying with related visual and audio archives.
Asa Lee explores scientific contexts inspired by a found print with an attempt of navigating connections between art and knowledge. Her project Supernova IC1937 reflecting on an astronomic and artistic research consists of cyanotypes and a letter to artist Katherina Meldner, who later Asa Lee realized to be the author of the found print. The cyanotypes include images of old astronomical glass plates from archives of Hamburger Sternwarte and Harvard Observatory and excerpts from scientific and biographical material, through which the artist reviewed the discovery of Supernova IC1937, the context of its related scientists and the narrative created by the artist Katherina Meldner. This journey of research unfolded into a complex dialogue navigating knowledge and its perception.
The poetic video projection, May 3, 2022, 19:03 to 20:24, Central European Time, created by Lena Seiz presents a simple gesture of relocating the sunset light at her studio on the third floor of an apartment building in Berlin in May 2022 to the current exhibition space. This process of preserving and releasing the light from one place to another provides a potential to review the perception and connection between time and space. Light, colors and the transition of time revive a shared experience and activate the given space.
The group exhibition of the three fictional artists, instead of one solo exhibition, relinquishes the burden of fixated artistic practices and biographical contexts as it focuses not on one artist’s perspective but on links connecting works and its potential implications. The unspeakable thoughts in our collective memory and individual minds are what interests Cieslewicz throughout her artistic research. The artist wishes to provide a venue where viewers can search and develop their own interpretations.