BREATHTURN
Track 16 x ROSALUX / “L’oiseau présente…” / Botschaft
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1206 Maple Ave
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Los Angeles, CA 90015
Opening Hours
July 9th
7-10pm
On view
Wed-Sat: noon-6pm
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About
One of the many effects of the COVID-19 pandemic was to contribute to an awareness of the importance of respiratory activity and its impact on personal and social well-being. Berlin-based artist Tiny Domingos' first solo exhibition in the United States takes its title from a collection of poems published in 1967 that evoke both breathing and a reversal of situation: BREATHTURN (ATEMWENDE in its original version). Its author is Paul Celan, a poet who, refusing all labels and taking unexpected paths, succeeded in a challenge that many (like Adorno) considered impossible: to revive the poetic language shattered by the Holocaust. Today, as the War in Ukraine plunges us back into a time-space that seemed to be over, another challenge - equally impossible in appearance and not unrelated to this conflict - arises before us: to face the brutal collapse to which the climate crisis, soil deterioration and mass extinction are leading. The very conditions of habitability of the planet are at stake. Once again, it is a matter of life and death.
Inscribed in a post-humanist and cosmopoetic approach aiming at planetary health and the overcoming of the nature - culture divide, the exhibition takes the form of a hybrid installation in which video works and artificial intelligence joins the tangible and the lithic to open up new perspectives of futurity. Betting on the great potential of poetic thought in terms of remediation, worldbuilding and imagination, Domingos proposes to wander through unknown landscapes where vast dimensions of time and space coexist from a quantum perspective and to immerse oneself in bordering zones in which water, soil and their mineral memory, mix according to the flows and serve as a setting for surprising exchanges, emergences and metamorphoses.
Track 16
Track 16 Gallery has been exhibiting local and international artists for over 27 years. We’re in the Bendix Building in downtown Los Angeles’s Fashion District.
ROSALUX
ROSALUX is a project space with a strong interdisciplinary and international orientation that has been firmly rooted in Berlin for more than 15 years. It is named after Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz, an interface between 2 creative districts of Berlin.
Art knows no borders: ROSALUX regularly presents works by German and/or Berlin-based artists in combination with international positions.
ROSALUX believes in:– the inter- and transdisciplinary dialogue– the transformative potential of art and posthumanism– the artist-led approach to contemporary art and the artist/curator as an inspiring emancipating force– artistic diplomacy to promote solidarity, international circulation, cooperation and encounter.
ROSALUX is committed to the empowerment of the artistic base and promotes self-determined artistic ways of working and project ideas, networking and cooperation with other artistic initiatives and independent project spaces on a local and international level.
Founder and project manager: Tiny Domingos
“L’oiseau présente…”
"L'oiseau présente..." is a non-commercial, independent project initiative of the artists Gunna Schmidt, Nicola Stäglich and Anke Völk, whose artistic focus is on abstraction in cross-genre painting. They understand the conception and realization of exhibitions as part of their artistic attitude. Thus, a continuous exhibition series with already 24 exhibitions has been created. Since 2010, this has mainly taken place in Berlin at Ballhaus Ostonthe 3rd floor, but also outside Berlin, e.B. "Berlin Non Objective" 2012 (SNO Contemporay Art Project in Sydney), "be abstract" 2015 (Kunstverein Schwäbisch Hall), "between things" 2016 (Einraumhaus c/o, Mannheim)
Currently,be t 2016, we are without a fixed space.
The project initiative offers a network from which the invited artists benefit among themselves and a space for experimental, cross-cutting approaches. We enable artists outside the established, commercially oriented art market to show their works and to develop new ones for them. The exhibition program creates a forum in which discourses are initiated
and in which different positions in different thematic constellations meet again and again.
Die Botschaft
Die Botschaft is a project space for socio-political discourse and contemporary art. Started 10 years ago as a nomadic exhibition project by the artists Manfred Peckl, Rainer Neumaier and Thomas Draschan, it settled at the Uferhallen in Wedding in 2016. Directly located in an increasingly gentrified area, Die Botschaft is an art hub, political message and space for discussion at the same time.