invited and curated by Frederik Vium and Cristina Rüesch
march 2022 at Frappant Galerie,
group show 2nd Chapter and bark beetles mapped hidden worlds

Object of forgotten memory/ Holding, Forcing, Laying are two knots, one being the peeled skin of the other. The core of this work is of intimate matter, a reflection on embodied traumas. What seemed interesting to me was to compare these embodied traumas to knots, a textile exists out of coherent knots, traumas and emotions as well. This two knots are coherent as well. This knot (on the left) therefore is speaking a text written by me.

2nd Chapter: and bark beetles mapped hidden worlds

Follow the lines under the crust. A landscape, a letter, a warm invitation

To a sphere where shape-shifters, ambivalent creatures and magical disorders meet and nest. They create new worlds, that at first glimpse might seem uncanny – Where every little thing is active and vibrant – Where borders are substituted by networks.

This exhibition is the second chapter of an exchange between eight artists which started with the package show “1st Chapter: Trying to Be a Spider” that was sent into the world in April 2021.

Instead of the spider, this time the bark beetle is our host and storyteller.

Do you want to take a walk on this dusty path with us?Text by Cristina Rüesch & Frederik Vium