Nekropolis

Martine Heuser

Eröffnung 3. September 19 Uhr
Performance von Martine Heuser und Natan Kryszk

Sculpture was born. Sculpture soon realized, that even though she was born, she had been simultaneously dead the entire time, she had existed. Since death is her, there is nothing particular for her to await. There is no death to come, no death to overcome, there is only a continuously unfolding of death and hence, the ever-becoming actuality of Sculpture herself.

She is unfolding in the sphere which she is continously born into. The action of excavation or unearthing of her latent actuality, is a processual rupturing in the hidden realms of the imaginary field called Nekropolis.

Since it may be uneasy to grasp how Sculpture is, I have made a list of something I do know about her:

Sculpture has no I.
Sculpture is omni.
Sculpture is not an object, nor a thing.
Sculpture is touching.
Sculpture is murmuring.
Sculpture is eroticism.
Sculpture is at stake.
Sculpture knows no dimension.
Sculpture confronts us with the vulgarity of being human. Sculpture will not exist before you, she unfolds herself within you. Sculpture is not a civilization, but you,

For this show in WAF Galerie, the site-specific Cenotaph [Audio-Monument No. 5] is being build. Calculations on the previous [Audio-Monument No. 4] (2019) will be implemented as Baustoff and merged with a Vermessung of the gallery space. The vibrant monumentality of Cenotaph [Audio-Monument No. 5] will be activated on 3 September 2020 at 7 pm for thereafter to continuously murmur, when (re-)building itself over 639 days. On 4 June 2022, Cenotaph will be finished and thus, decayed.
(M.H. August 2020)

Martine Heuser’s artistic practice develops from the imagination and the fictional, as well as the fascination for terminologies. Her anti-heroic engagement with places and absence manifests itself in a process-oriented »Körper-Schreiben« (body-writing), which leads to sculptural actions, actions of speech and to Audio-Monuments.