TECHNĒ ( flashes
Kunsthalle Bielefeld (D)
2024
Group exhibition Hyle1 with:
Nina Beier, Formafantasma, Pauline Julier, Izidora I LETHE, Ceylan Öztrük and Gina Proenza
The exhibition Hyle1 explores the underlying connection between materials and temporality. In ancient Greek, hyle stands for wood as a raw and untreated matter.
In the five-part series FLASH (2024), Izidora I LETHE uses the rose as a symbol charged with meaning and recurrent throughout all periods of (art) history. In this way, LETHE refers to the German philosopher Walter Benjamin, who understood history as “matter of a construct whose place is not homogeneous and empty time, but time filled with the present.” In this way, Benjamin referred to the continuum of history.
As a continuation of the work, Izidora I LETHE developed the performance TECHNĒ , which engages with the complicated and complex layers of architectural history of the Kunsthalle Bielefeld. TECHNĒ (flashes is a performance that raises questions about contemporary bodies’ relation to such different temporal layers and their interdependancy. Part of LETHE’s choreography is the citation of works from the graphic collection of the Kunsthalle.
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