[…] Three drops of blood plopped out of his left nostril, hardened instantly in the brittle air and lay before his eyes on the prayer-mat, transformed into rubies. Lurching back until he knelt with his head once more upright, he found that the tears which had sprung to his eyes had solidified, too; and at that moment, as he brushed diamonds contemptuously from his lashes, he resolved never again to kiss earth for any god or man. […]
Salman Rushdie, “Midnight’s Children,” 1981
offseen publications
Wet Wings
When the creature emerges from the larva, awkward and unsteady, its sticky wings are already there, yet still too fragile to fly. It is a state of metamorphosis and departure, but also one of uncertainty and vulnerability. Paula Breuer’s works
Ground Truthing
Reisig and Taylor Contemporary is presenting Ground Truthing, a solo exhibition by Kim Zumpfe (with the projected multimedia work “GroundTruthing.Schrapnel” made in collaboration with Luke Quezada). This is Zumpfe’s first exhibition with the gallery. Ground Truthing is on view in
Molten
“Molten”, the new solo exhibition by Céline Mathieu at Kunstverein für Mecklenburg und Vorpommern in Schwerin, considers what is already there and what is brought in, as a living infrastructure, which can resist, capacitate, and induce. Material from former exhibitions
Boy With Thorn
Open Thursday through Sunday 10am – 4pm Boy With Thorn is the inspection of a nagging pain, the moment of pause in search of relief. In the show’s initial reference, Spinario (a Greco-Roman Hellenistic bronze predating the 1160s) a young
Cora Pongracz “8 erweiterte portraits” with: Marietta Mavrokordatou
The second dialogical presentation expands Cora Pongracz’s series and exhibition of the same name, “8 erweiterte portraits”, with works by Cypriot artist Marietta Mavrokordatou, which complement Cora Pongracz’s media-reflective and expanded understanding of portraiture and identity with the dimension of
