Elsa Stanyer and Emilio Marroquin

Exhibition opening 23rd March - 4th May

Text by Fanny Dommers.

SCHLEUSE, Opelvillen
Ludwig-Dörfler-Allee 9
65428 Rüsselsheim am Main

Elsa Stanyer

“Detachment from intimate atmospheres and abandonment are recurring themes in Elsa Stanyer's practice, but not as a subjective condition, but rather as a feature of our shared and interdependent lives. We are vulnerable to those social structures that make our lives possible, and when they waver, we waver too. In psychoanalytic theses, "becoming a subject" is preceded by a supposed process of detachment that thus leads to self- empowerment. Elsa Stanyer's work explores the possibility of not simply overcoming dependencies in order to achieve self- sufficiency: Rather, these relationships marked by dependency are to be accepted as a condition for equivalent existence, in order to let something grow out of it.” - Sophia Scherer, curator

Emilio Marroquin

In an age of endless reproducibility, the uniqueness of objects fades. Emilio Marroquin's work explores how objects persist—not just physically, but as images in the mind and collective consciousness. Initially working exclusively with sculpture, he has recently included drawing in his practice, a medium that allows him to further this sculptural inquiry free from physical constraints. His drawings create seemingly immaterial objects, blurring the line between physical and imaginary. In a similar way Marroquin is interested in blurring the boundaries of the physical and digital realms, reflecting on the fleeting nature of digital experiences. By bridging these spaces, his work encourages the questioning of the stability of the objects and images that shape contemporary life.