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LINTEL (2014)
Drawing
Metamorphosis/Kurfürstendamm
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Part of the Metamorphosis/Kurfürstendamm body of work and the project Metamorphosis. Lintel interprets a manhole cover situated in the Kurfürstendamm area in Berlin featuring a trace of the object. The trace  is part of the first phase of the Metamorphosis/Kurfürstendamm project during which the city's elements are documented through the method of frottage, a non-intermediated way of capturing the element's texture on paper. The work proposes a new visual interpretation/function of the documented object.

"Lintel" is part of Metamorphosis/Kurfürstendamm and the broader project Metamorphosis. It was presented in the group show "Lost Space", João Cocteau Gallery, Berlin, March 2014. For photographs of the exhibition please refer here.


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Lintel
Installation
80 cm x 46 cm
Japanese kozo paper, wax crayon
2014

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Picture
Installation view at the exhibition Lost Space, 
João Cocteau Gallery, Berlin, Germany. 
Photography: Susanne Lek
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      • PRESS & POSTAL CARDS
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