THE ARTIST’S CREATION PROCESS AS A CRUCIAL MOMENT
OF COMING TOO SOON OR TOO LATE.
For his site-specific intervention at the Pombaline space of Rua da Madalena the artist Kilian Ruethemann combines plain construction material with common household objects to challenge our perception:
a pair of trousers hangs upside down from a flight of stairs; another one winds itself around a column; broken neon-lights create a line on the wall, turning their inside out; glass attempts to seal silicone; fur dipped into a black mass is thrown through the space with a strong gesture; a white door suspended from the arched vault turns into an abstract image.
Objects in surreal motion frozen at the breaking point of their imaginary materiality. Ruethemann’s work draws a fragile line where the tension arises between the sculptural and the flat. The appearance of an inexhaustible variety of shapes, generated through a slight shift of the object’s material condition, is the core of his intervention.
What remains is the exposition of the ex-position: the ever differing track of the existential throw of the dice.
O PROCESSO DE CRIAÇÃO DO ARTISTA COMO UM MOMENTO
QUE CHEGA DEMASIADO CEDO OU DEMASIADO TARDE
O que perdura é a exposição de uma “ex-posição”: um lançamento de dados que é sempre ocasional.