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Parallel Narratives

Parallel Narratives, Installation View, SETAREH, Berlin, 2022,Photo: Trevor Good
Parallel Narratives, Installation View, SETAREH, Berlin, 2022,Photo: Trevor Good
Parallel Narratives, Installation View, Anica Seidel, Felix Kultau, Eric Meier, SETAREH, Berlin, 2022, Photo: Trevor Good
Parallel Narratives, Installation View, Anica Seidel, Felix Kultau, Eric Meier, SETAREH, Berlin, 2022, Photo: Trevor Good
Parallel Narratives, Installation View, Jakub Kubica, Felix Kultau, Anica Seidel, Steffen Jopp, Julia Eichler, SETAREH, Berlin, Germany, 2022, Photo: Trevor Good
Parallel Narratives, Installation View, Jakub Kubica, Felix Kultau, Anica Seidel, Steffen Jopp, Julia Eichler, SETAREH, Berlin, Germany, 2022, Photo: Trevor Good
Parallel Narratives, Installation View, Julia Eichler, Laura Sachs, Nils Weiligmann, Walker Brengel, Selou Sowe, SETAREH, Berlin, Germany, 2022, Photo: Trevor Good
Parallel Narratives, Installation View, Julia Eichler, Laura Sachs, Nils Weiligmann, Walker Brengel, Selou Sowe, SETAREH, Berlin, Germany, 2022, Photo: Trevor Good
Parallel Narratives, Installation View, Walker Brengel, Emil Walde, Jakub Kubica, Felix Kultau, SETAREH, Berlin, Germany, 2022, Photo: Trevor Good
Parallel Narratives, Installation View, Walker Brengel, Emil Walde, Jakub Kubica, Felix Kultau, SETAREH, Berlin, Germany, 2022, Photo: Trevor Good
Taylor Tschider_Untitled (Valley of The Rogue Study No. 5)_2022_Prototype resin, unique tint_150x61x46cm
Taylor Tschider_Untitled (Valley of The Rogue Study No. 5)_2022_Prototype resin, unique tint_150x61x46cm
Jakub Kubica_2020_mdl_007a.jk_Stone, alumium_50 x 50 x 50 cm
Jakub Kubica_2020_mdl_007a.jk_Stone, alumium_50 x 50 x 50 cm
Anica Seidel, Whipflash, 2021, Barrier cords, flashlight, perforated tape, snap hook, cable tie8 x 135 x 48 cm
Anica Seidel, Whipflash, 2021, Barrier cords, flashlight, perforated tape, snap hook, cable tie8 x 135 x 48 cm
Steffen Jopp, 2022, träumerisch und erstaunt, stainless steel, 135x88x38cm
Steffen Jopp, 2022, träumerisch und erstaunt, stainless steel, 135x88x38cm

Location

SETAREH Berlin

Date

01.07 –02.09.2022

Photography

Installation Views: Trevor Good

Subheadline

Kim Bode, Walker Brengel, Julia Eichler, Steffen Jopp, Jakub Kubica, Felix Kultau, Eric Meier, Moritz Riesenbeck, Laura Sachs, Anica Seidel, Selou Sowe, Wanda Stolle, Taylor Tschider, Emil Walde, Nils Weiligmann

Text

Although it is commonplace to speak of the spatial arts, painting and sculpture, as narrative arts—a way of speaking which suggests the intimate relations between image and text—pictorial artists obviously do not narrate stories in the same way that writers do. In a certain sense, they do not narrate at all. To speak of an artist as a teller of stories is a figure of speech, since painters and sculptors do not “tell,” they “show.” As some critics have observed, pictorial artists imply a narrative by referring to what has been said in words, but surely such allusions are not the same thing as a narrative in words. -BAROLSKY, PAUL. "There is No Such Thing as Narrative Art." Arion: A Journal of the Humanities and the Classics, vol. 18 no. 2, 2010, p. 49-62. Project MUSE, doi:10.1353/arn.2010.0007. As Paul Barolsky explains, artworks “show” stories compared to telling a story as a novelist would do. The sculptures and paintings in this group show offer a visual representation of thoughts, reflections and ideas and compose a story to be perceived visually and transformed intellectually. Demonstrating how we perceive art and are exposed to visual narratives, woven by the artists, investigating thoughts and individual perception. The exhibition takes its title from the term Parallel Narratives, coined by Peter Sloterdijk, describing the phenomena of images offering a spatial and visual “parallel narrative” to his intellectual exploration of bubbles (discovery of self). Each work in the show represents its own narrative, juxtaposing a new story, evoking different thoughts and creating a temporary chronicle in the space. Simultaneously creating parallels to the other works, sometimes in coherence, sometimes in juxtaposition, offering an investigation into space, self, intimacy and correlation. Walking through the exhibition can be seen as a continuous narrative, weaved by each visitor, closing gaps between memory and reality, between thought and creation, highlighting the capacity of objects in a space to construct a dialogue with one another.