Tomorrow's Dream
Neuer Essener Kunstverein
Bernestrasse 3
45127 Essen
Jay Glass Dubs, Haris Epaminonda, Shannon Finley, Thomas Geiger, Irini Miga,
Sarah Schönfeld, Yorgos Stamkopoulos, Panos Tsagaris
curated by Daily Lazy
curated by Daily Lazy
Neuer Essener Kunstverein
Bernestrasse 3
45127 Essen
Images courtesy the artists and Neuer Essener Kunstverein
Photos: Philipp Kurzhals
Photos: Philipp Kurzhals
Untitled”
by Irini Miga
A
drop of water that creates a ripple
A
ripple that creates a sound
A
sound that echoes a thought
A
thought that carves into a memory
A
memory that simulates reality
A
reality that feels monochromatic
A
monochrome that reflects an image
An
image that becomes the self
The
self that carries the body
The
body that renders into color
The
color that offers the light
The
light that transcends into infinity
The
infinity that collapses into a moment,
the
moment that a word becomes an image
and
an image becomes a word.
Curated by the Greek artist group Daily Lazy, “Tomorrow’s Dream”
brings together a group of international artists who work with a wide variety
of media. Through painting and sculpture, to sound, installation and
performance, the exhibition explores the secret relationships and obscure
territories between art and poetry.
The works on view reflect their willingness to interact with a
poem written by the artist Irini Miga. Placed in the middle of the exhibition
space, the poem attracts the works through a mysterious magnetism. The
interaction between the poem and the parts of the exhibition, as well as the
works themselves, are linked through the spaces of their presence, the breaks
between materiality and quality, their form and size, as well as the existence
of the poem in space. Established exhibition conventions are thus abandoned in
favor of a variable, tangible level of perception. Instead, the interaction
between the work and the viewer that emerge is one of transience or
perseverance.
The diverse and private connections that are triggered by the
poem contain an enigma in which layers of intimacy, meditative thinking, and
also the distance between ourselves and the outcry of the world are held. Daily
Lazy does not aim to prescribe any defined guidelines or readings, only
coordinates of a tour. For this to be embraced, our belief must be in the
disclosure of the essential variables of experience as the essence of artistic
work.