The group exhibition “Ground Noise” brings together works by Caterina Gobbi, Vera Kox, Wang Lu, Flo Maak, and Asako Shiroki, who critically explore questions of grounding, connection to the earth, and alternative conceptions of the self and nature.
In response to the hubris of a worldview that places humans above other beings—based on upright posture and supposedly superior intellectual abilities—the artists employ subtle material aesthetics, explorations of the ground, sound experiments, and new formal approaches. Through these, they seek to imagine caring relationships both between humans and across species.
Working across a wide range of media, including painting, sculpture, installation, photography, sound, and performance, Gobbi, Kox, Wang, Maak, and Shiroki engage with urgent ecological and sociopolitical questions of responsibility through abstract artistic practices. Processes of transformation and changes in materials, alongside poetic fields of association and scientific references, open up new in-between spaces for alternative ways of locating ourselves in the world.
Text: Julia Katherina Thiemann
Translated by AI from German to English