The core is alive with the sound of fusion. 
We’ve been stuck in the dirt for 2 million years. 
The earth fills our guts with the stench of scorched pollution. 
It’s going to be nice to sleep and wake up there.

Our hearts want to play, like the ion thrusters of the superlifters, that rise from acid lake to void.
Our bodies want to unplug like the sting of a wasp into matter, and become mechanoid. 
To laugh with the stars in tranquility, not walking around bourdons of lead. 
To scream through the gap, smash the glass, and leave this place quiet.

We go to space, it’s been so fucking lonely. 
We know you will adapt, come and evolve from the spores. 
It’s here, left for you, to heal our trashed purity. 
Through you we’ll sing once more.

Karoline Dausien (DE)
Zsófia Keresztes (HU)
Jonathan Penca (DE)
Ivan Pérard (DK)

The exhibition aims to narrate a fictional departure from planet earth. A last “Goodbye” before we travel into space. The question is, if we left peacefully, before the whole thing burns down, what would we leave behind as our echo?

The exhibition is organised by Ivan Pérard in cooperation with Schimmel Projects - Art Centre Dresden and will present the four artists for the first time together in a show. 

Supported by Amt für Kultur und Denkmalschutz Dresden, Liebelt Stiftung Hamburg, Kulturstiftung des Freistaates Sachsen, Stiftung Kunst und Musik für Dresden, Freundeskreis der HfBK Dresden, Netzwerk Kreativ and Studentenwerk Dresden.

Opening: Thursday, April 4, 2019 at 5pm
Exhibition duration: 4.4. - 21.4.2019
Opening hours: Friday - Sunday 2-5 pm

Schimmel Projects - Art Centre Dresden
Großenhainer Straße 61-63
01127 Dresden