Let’s provide an example.
A mother buys her child two T-shirts. The child puts on one of the shirts and steps forward smiling, whereupon the mother says: 'Don’t you like the other one?' The child is taken aback.
A dilemma like this is called a Double Bind. And what a dilemma it is! Practically insoluble.
However, the child straightens itself out and puts on the other T-shirt as well, over the first one, but realises immediately the deadendedness of this solution because it also shows a preference. Not in the wearing admittedly, but still in the showing. Because which T-shirt goes on top?
Disillusioned the child shambles off, to return shortly with the second T-shirt pulled over the first, but inside out this time. Now the front sides of both shirts, that normally carry texts or images, face each other, invisible to us.
1. Did the child redeem itself?
2. Or is this a new piece by gerlach en koop?
3. If so, can it be fabricated?
4. If so, can it be shown?
Or is there no reason?
Curator: Regina Barunke
Collaboration: Lorenzo Benedetti, de Appel arts centre, Amsterdam
PUBLICATION
gerlach en koop. Choses tuées
exhibition catalogue, Vol. 2
Edited by the artists and Temporary Gallery, Cologne
Texts by Regina Barunke, Valentina Desideri, Nickel van Duijvenboden, Maxine Kopsa, Candice Lin, Raimundas Malasauskas
Design by Louis Lüthi
German / English
Roma Publications, 2015
gerlach en koop. Choses tuées
exhibition catalogue, Vol. 1
Edited by the artists and de Appel arts centre, Amsterdam
Texts by Lorenzo Benedetti, Valentina Desideri, Nickel van Duijvenboden, Maxine Kopsa, Candice Lin, Raimundas Malasauskas
Design by Louis Lüthi
German / English
Roma Publications, 2015
PROGRAMME
13 February 2016
Echolocation; A Reading by Nickel van Duijvenboden
11 March 2016
Valentinas Klimašauskas: How to Clone a Mammoth (in Three Voices and With a Fisherman’s Exaggeration)
12 March 2016
Exhibition tour with Regina Barunke and Lorenzo Benedetti
5 November 2016
Catalogue presentation
PRESS MATERIAL
Funding and Support
Mondriaan Fonds
Ministerium für Familie, Kinder, Jugend, Kultur und Sport des Landes Nordrhein-Westfalen
Botschaft des Königreichs der Niederlande
Kulturamt der Stadt Köln
RheinEnergie Stiftung Kultur
Deltax contemporary, Wirtschafts- und Steuerberatungsgesellschaft mbH
Hotel Chelsea
Images
1 — exhibition view
2 — gerlach en koop: Negatives, 2015
3 — gerlach en koop: Gebalgde stofzuiger, 2015
4 — gerlach en koop: To become an angle, 2015
5 — exhibition view
Photo: Kristien Daem