Inscape

Kea Bolenz, Caroline Douville, Gala Lillian Glotzbach, Ant Łakomsk, Antonia Nannt, Josephine Rothauser, Klaudia Schifferle, Aline Schwibbe Kraupa-Tuskany Zeidler is pleased to announce Inscape, a group exhibition curated by the gallery team, presenting established and emerging female artists working in sculpture, painting, and drawing. The word inscape enters the English language in two registers, from two distinct moments. The Victorian poet Gerard Manley Hopkins derived it from the medieval philosopher Duns Scotus's concept of haecceitas, or thisness: the irreducible inner form through which each thing enacts its own identity. The Chilean surrealist Roberto Matta later adopted the term for his paintings of the late 1930s, exploring the mind as a three-dimensional space, a landscape one could enter and depict. Inscape, then, is both portmanteau and proposition: the interior treated as terrain, the psyche as a geography with its own topography. The works come together in response to this proposition, sharing a connection to the subject of womanhood as an interior landscape that is plural by nature, unresolved and still in the making. Space, in this sense, is understood as the product of simultaneous and intersecting stories: never singular, never settled. It is shaped by those who inhabit it, pass through it, are excluded from it, or claim it on their own terms. To map a space is therefore to map a set of relations: between bodies and boundaries, between presence and absence, between what is permitted and what is withheld.

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Berlin, NY