KÜNSTLERHAUS

BETHANIEN

Exhibition

Sofie Bird Møller

The Spirit of Places and other Spaces

Am rechten Ufer des Zweifelns, 2009. Courtesy Sassa Trülzsch, Berlin.

Sofie Bird Møller debunks found, historical engravings of their figural depiction and conveys the classic works’ claim of eternity into an indefinite temporality. As a first step Møller takes away the visible by purposely overpainting it, subsequently closing the created image-gaps with a similar poignant accurate technical mastery of the original image. Although the human figure is primarily eliminated from the image the wear marks and subtle color-shifts indicate the retouching and let the fragmental removals appear in interfering layers with a ghostly transparency.

Exhibition
18.04. – 18.05.2014
Tue - Sun: 2 - 7pm
Admission free

Opening
17.04.2014
7 - 10 pm