Ivan Gedder / splitbrain
curated by Jisue Byun
1–16 October 2021
BLOOM, Birkenstr. 56, 40233 Duesseldorf, Germany
Photographs by Achim Kukulies, Tobias Brembeck, © BLOOMDUESSELDORF
In the exhibition splitbrain, Ivan Geddert shows new sculptural
and installation works. Most of his works are based on simple materials such as
string, wire, cardboard, wood or metal, which Ivan relates to each other in
such a way that new equations emerge.
Starting
from sketches, he develops them from an inner catalogue of interrelationships.
The title splitbrain refers to a medical term. It refers
to the state of the brain after the connecting bar between the two brain
hemispheres has been severed–a treatment for epilepsy that is rarely used
today. As a result of the missing connection, communication between the two
hemispheres of the brain is no longer possible.
A viewed image can no longer be named. It is only perceived by the right
hemisphere, but not by the left, where the speech centre is located.
„The shaking
woman is not the narrating woman. The narrating, interpreting woman continued
on while the other shook. The narrator was a fluent generator of sentences and
explanations.“
-Siri Hustvedt, The Shaking Woman or A History
of My Nerves, New York 2010-