NATALIE HÄUSLER
Case Mod
OPENING FRIDAY, JANUARY 11th
h.18.30
The show will be on until the 16th of February
Supportico Lopez is open from Tuesday to Saturday from 11.oo to18.oo
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CASE MOD
Natalie Häusler’s installation Case Mod (from: Case Modification)
exacts from the gallery space a field in which intimate and reciprocal
encounters between audience and art practice are put to the test.
Häusler compiles a situation, combining several elements derived from a
simultaneity of studio and writing practice. Emerging forms, in this
case, watercolor, sculpture and poetry, query whether they can uphold
their fragilities and force of expression when exposed to the viewer and
to each other. They articulate their mutuality when arranged in the
exhibition space, producing crosscuts and intimacies, of visual, written
and audio material, as well as of object and spectator/reader/listener.
The audience becomes belated witness of the art practice as such, which
the installation at once showcases and archives. Yet the present moment
is highlighted, as the visitors leave their own marks on the piece,
subtly shifting the color palette or destroying it altogether. Audio
recordings of the voices of close friends, who are practicing artists
and writers, reciting the poems, track down their intimate reception by
an audience that is involved in both activities, production and
reception. They capture the moment of surprise, when the poem was read
for the first time. The intimacy of this contact is shared with the
passing visitor, who must come close to the audio shelf, to be able to
hear the individual reading. These shelves, each of which is cut and
built from one sheet of stained glass, and customized for its assigned
set of outmoded electronic equipment, serve as seductive support and
hazardous repellant at the same time. The temporary construction of a
space of this kind is part of Häusler’s inquiry of forms of intimacy,
risk, close contact with the material, and inclusion to question modes
of reception.
The book “Watercolors” documenting a one and a half year long
correspondence in form of watercolors sent via email between Natalie
Häusler and Californian artist David Horvitz is part of the exhibition.
A book launch will be held on January 12th at Motto Berlin.