Leseraum (2022)
Leseraum
(2022)
Natural cotton canvas, hand-painted motifs using screen printing ink.
Reverse side pattern screen printed . Additional materials include thread, filling, metal rod, and a metal chain.
Leseraum -Reading Room- 1 features 40 geometric and figurative images painted using black silkscreen ink. The motifs are memories that explore themes of identity, displacement, belonging, and movement, creating a narrative without a fixed point of origin or conclusion. The mattress background, screen printed with a pattern reminiscent of the artist’s childhood bed, connects the past with the present, signifying the space where identity and memories are formed. Leseraum functions both as a storytelling device and a space for reflection, blurs the boundaries between viewer and object, transforming individual stories into a shared, communal narrative.
Credits
Images
Exhibition Views @Lukas Engelhardt
Acknowledgments
∞Thanks to Marie Siewierski, Cansu Naz Tekir, Atelier Kleine Freiheit 50, Ulrike Wittern - Textil Werkstatt HFBK Hamburg, Bildhauerei Class HFBK Hamburg Thomas Demand / Oliver Laric ∞