Stephanie Kiwitt CORNERVILLE
11 Aug - 08 Sep 2007
ZIGARETTEN, 2007, Laserprint, 165 cm x 220 cm, tapeziert / wallpapered
installation view, 2007 Galerie b2_
installation view, 2007 Galerie b2_
SCHRANK, 2007, Laserprint, 130 x 130 cm, tapeziert / wallpapered
AUTOMAT, 2007, Laserprint, 215 x 275 cm, tapeziert / wallpapered
ZELLE, 2007, Laserprint, 165 cm x 220 cm, tapeziert / wallpapered
STADT, 2007, Laserprint, 255 x 355 cm, tapeziert / wallpapered
The Abolition of Public Order
In CORNERVILLE, Stephanie Kiwitt examines the building boom in Marseille today: necessity and transformation, the results and effects of producing space. The everyday impersonality of inner-city architecture inevitably enters our perception in an unprocessed form. Stephanie Kiwitt focuses on this condition. Within the setting of interchangeable structures and monotonous urban forms, Kiwitt discloses distinctive situations, in which human presence and action interferes with the urban architecture and public order. Capturing decay and aggression, she renders visible the aesthetic of the anonymously new and its displacement through the use and realignment of dysfunctional objects.
Kiwitt blows these sculptural responses to existent architecture up into largescale black-and-white images, employing these to the ends of a perturbing all-over composition in CORNERVILLE. Due to their size and composition, the images forcibly occupy space, becoming novel and despairingly alluring architectural constructs in their own right. Resembling clocks, monitors throughout the gallery show brief videos of recurring occurrences, reminding the viewer that time is expiring in the contemporary inner city, the plane of friction between human life and material. The artist realised CORNERVILLE during a DAAD research sojourn in Marseille in 2006/07. We would like to welcome Stephanie Kiwitt on recently joining Galerie b2. Accompanying the exhibition, the book CORNERVILLE will be published in a limited edition.
In CORNERVILLE, Stephanie Kiwitt examines the building boom in Marseille today: necessity and transformation, the results and effects of producing space. The everyday impersonality of inner-city architecture inevitably enters our perception in an unprocessed form. Stephanie Kiwitt focuses on this condition. Within the setting of interchangeable structures and monotonous urban forms, Kiwitt discloses distinctive situations, in which human presence and action interferes with the urban architecture and public order. Capturing decay and aggression, she renders visible the aesthetic of the anonymously new and its displacement through the use and realignment of dysfunctional objects.
Kiwitt blows these sculptural responses to existent architecture up into largescale black-and-white images, employing these to the ends of a perturbing all-over composition in CORNERVILLE. Due to their size and composition, the images forcibly occupy space, becoming novel and despairingly alluring architectural constructs in their own right. Resembling clocks, monitors throughout the gallery show brief videos of recurring occurrences, reminding the viewer that time is expiring in the contemporary inner city, the plane of friction between human life and material. The artist realised CORNERVILLE during a DAAD research sojourn in Marseille in 2006/07. We would like to welcome Stephanie Kiwitt on recently joining Galerie b2. Accompanying the exhibition, the book CORNERVILLE will be published in a limited edition.