"The Sublime & The Subliminal"
Installation and Exhibition
9. and 10. of December 2022
Motoki Ehrenfeld, Köln.


Installation:
"The Sublime & Subliminal (empty molds)" is an installation that talks about the filters existing in our society, which categorize and alienate us as individuals; This work acts as an analogy to the invasive stimuli that shape us: the social media that we consume, the institutions that we visit, the information that we daily normalize, they shape and condition us - and yet their influence is subtil. Empty molds is an analogy of our society, an analogy of us as individuals, but also in a major scale as a whole collective that we are.
This project was constructed in 2 phases. It started in 2020; due to social circumstances in the past years it could not be continued and was resumed as a part of this event in 2022.


Event:
The Installation was presented in context of a selforganized group exhibition with sound performances and concerts under the same name ‘The Sublime & The Subliminal’ in Motoki Ehrenfeld, Köln.

Concept:
Clara Kulemeyer

Organization and curation:
Clara Kulemeyer and Caroline Brünen

Sound Performances and Concerts by:
Alex Simon Klug, Moritz Baerens & Nuño Fernandez, Helin Korkmaz, Ting Chun Liu, Pedro Ramirez,
Hyemin Jung and Johanna Schütt.

Installations and Photography works by:
Lea Sprenger & Tom Tautorus, Kristina Lenz, Caroline Brünen, Camilo Sandoval and Clara Kulemeyer.

Photography:
Ezequiel Angeloni

Flyer:
Amy Cimerman

 

The Sublime & The Subliminal (empty molds) Installation

“Power Perspectives”



Group Exhibition “THE END / NOT THE END?”
Goethe Institut Paris (Photo Paris)
17 Av. d'Iéna 75016 Paris, France.

10.11.2022 - 07.01.2023

Power Perspectives is a photo and video installation that deals with the social and ecological consequences of lithium mining in the Salinas Grandes de Jujuy in Argentina. Lithium is needed to equip cars, laptops, smartphones and cameras with batteries. In the process, the presence of mining companies threatens the way of life of communities that have lived in the region for thousands of years: lithium extraction does not ensure that the groundwater used by indigenous communities is not contaminated. The installation provides two perspectives: a vertical projection screen shows lithium mining with the help of satellite images; The same video shows interviews with people who work in or are affected by lithium mining. Horizontally, a series of photographs of the lithium salt mining area are arranged, showing traces of the inhabitants. The artist speaks of the vertical perspective as a surveying and extraction perspective, while the horizontal perspective corresponds to the human gaze. The work reflects on the complex system of worldwide extraction, which continues the historically grown oppression of indigenous people in order to satisfy global consumer needs.

To resume:
PP2022

 

"Transgenic"

This Video Installation was presented in Argentina at the Centro Cultutal Aurora in Mendoza
26.02.2022

First exhibited in context of the Goup exhibition “Photographic Utopia” in KunstWerk Köln, Germany.
21.01 - 05.02 2022




This work is a critic about Monsanto, that proposes an analogy between the transgenic process carried out on seeds: manipulation of their genes to obtain functional characteristics for massive agricultural crops, with a process of harvesting from nature (main image of the video). It is transformed by the discourses that deny the scientific evidence of the environmental impact, mutating into an animation that is increasingly far from the original image, increasingly transgenic. 

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Transgenic
Opening Aurora Centro Cultural
Mendoza, Argentina 26.02.2022








Transgenic
Photographic Utopia Exhibition
21.01-5.02.2022
KunstWerk Köln

"Hain"

This Video-dance performance called “Hain” was presented in Cluj, Rumania.
24.08.2022


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