Ungrowing
curated by Sophia Scherer
18.06.–26.06.2021
Opening: Friday, June 18, 2021, 4 – 8 pm
Saturday 19.6. + Sunday 20.6. 5 – 8 pm
Thursday 24.06. + Friday 25.06. 5 – 8 pm
Saturday 26.06. 3 – 6 pm
and by appointment via mail sophiayvettscherer@gmail.com or elsastanyer@gmail.com.
By confronting the artistic work of her own mother, Elsa Stanyer begins to discover unconscious parallels and echoes in her own artistic practice and that of her mother. This juxtaposition forms the conceptual framework of the exhibition. The inclusion of the unseen work of another person, in this case her own mother, who was compelled to abandon her artistic activities, when she became a mother, is understood as a reflective momentum of the self and a "digestive" gesture of an inherited identity. The exhibition Ungrowing refers to cyclical states and notions of growth: the works on display reflect not only processes of growing up or outgrowing, but above all the impossible withdrawal or reversal of organic and biological processes such as social roles.
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Alte Mainzer Gasse 4-6
60311 Frankfurt