Schiefe Zähne

BUFFERS

Victoria Colmegna, Tom Humphreys, Lukas Quietzsch, Richard Sides, Philipp Simon, Lise Soskolne, Angharad Williams

Schiefe Zähne hosted by Contemporary Fine Arts Grolmanstraße 32/33 10623 Berlin

March 29 – April 24, 2021

BUFFERS by Victoria Colmegna, Tom Humphreys, Lukas Quietzsch, Richard Sides, Philipp Simon, Lise Soskolne, Angharad Williams
BUFFERS by Victoria Colmegna, Tom Humphreys, Lukas Quietzsch, Richard Sides, Philipp Simon, Lise Soskolne, Angharad Williams
BUFFERS by Victoria Colmegna, Tom Humphreys, Lukas Quietzsch, Richard Sides, Philipp Simon, Lise Soskolne, Angharad Williams
Richard Sides, I got soul but I'm not a soldier, 2019Inkjet print on paper, found printed material, felt tip pen, glue, artist's frame34 x 25 cm

Richard Sides, I got soul but I'm not a soldier, 2019
Inkjet print on paper, found printed material, felt tip pen, glue, artist's frame
34 × 25 cm

Tom Humphreys, Untitled, 2014ceramic tiles, transfer print 181 x 91 x 3,5 cm

Tom Humphreys, Untitled, 2014
ceramic tiles, transfer print
181 × 91 × 3,5 cm

Lukas Quietzsch, Gemeine Absichten aus alter Ferne, 2019gouache on canvas200 x 230 cm

Lukas Quietzsch, Gemeine Absichten aus alter Ferne, 2019
gouache on canvas
200 × 230 cm

Victoria Colmegna, Decorated Pool, 2021acrylic glass, UV print, plastic foil 3 panels of 58,5 x 90 cm

Victoria Colmegna, Decorated Pool, 2021
acrylic glass, UV print, plastic foil
3 panels of 58,5 × 90 cm

Victoria Colmegna, Decorated Pool (detail), 2021

Victoria Colmegna, Decorated Pool (detail), 2021

BUFFERS by Victoria Colmegna, Tom Humphreys, Lukas Quietzsch, Richard Sides, Philipp Simon, Lise Soskolne, Angharad Williams
BUFFERS by Victoria Colmegna, Tom Humphreys, Lukas Quietzsch, Richard Sides, Philipp Simon, Lise Soskolne, Angharad Williams
Lise Soskolne, Humour Then, 2006oil on canvas162,6 x 142,3 cm

Lise Soskolne, Humour Then, 2006
oil on canvas
162,6 × 142,3 cm

Tom Humphreys, Untitled, 2014ceramic tiles, transfer print,181 x 91 x 3,5 cm

Tom Humphreys, Untitled, 2014
ceramic tiles, transfer print,
181 × 91 × 3,5 cm

Richard Sides, Disinformation, 2021wood, chain, motor190 x 63 x 63 cm

Richard Sides, Disinformation, 2021
wood, chain, motor
190 × 63 × 63 cm

Richard Sides, Disinformation (detail), 2021

Richard Sides, Disinformation (detail), 2021

Richard Sides, The Conversation in an Invisible World, 2021wood, audio file, wireless speaker 40,5 x 33 x 90 cm

Richard Sides, The Conversation in an Invisible World, 2021
wood, audio file, wireless speaker
40,5 × 33 × 90 cm

Richard Sides, The Conversation in an Invisible World, 2021wood, audio file, wireless speaker 40,5 x 33 x 90 cm

Richard Sides, The Conversation in an Invisible World, 2021
wood, audio file, wireless speaker
40,5 × 33 × 90 cm

BUFFERS by Victoria Colmegna, Tom Humphreys, Lukas Quietzsch, Richard Sides, Philipp Simon, Lise Soskolne, Angharad Williams
Angharad Williams, Prisoners, 2019 - 2021lightbox (aluminium, LED lighting), digital print on fabric119 x 84 x 13 cm

Angharad Williams, Prisoners, 2019 - 2021
lightbox (aluminium, LED lighting), digital print on fabric
119 × 84 × 13 cm

Philipp Simon, Nürnberg, 2019mixed mediadimensions variable

Philipp Simon, Nürnberg, 2019
mixed media
dimensions variable

Philipp Simon, Nürnberg (detail), 2019

Philipp Simon, Nürnberg (detail), 2019

Philipp Simon, Nürnberg (detail), 2019

Philipp Simon, Nürnberg (detail), 2019

BUFFERS by Victoria Colmegna, Tom Humphreys, Lukas Quietzsch, Richard Sides, Philipp Simon, Lise Soskolne, Angharad Williams

BUFFERS

Many of the selected works directly or indirectly evoke elements of public space – outdoor advertising, street lighting, underpasses, motorway signs or revolving doors. Their temporary encounter in this exhibition is the modular construct of an overall scenic picture. In a terse, illusory character, it reflects a world, the one that continues to dissolve into the most diverse of fictionalizations.

Grotesque exaggerations of social and political events, such as those found in the cartoon series South Park, are every now and then overshadowed by the real. A tendency which becomes clear here, in turn, begs the question on the relationship between reality, fiction as well as on the layers of images and information that connect them.

The exhibition contrasts decoupled concepts of truth with a series of sign, image, and reference systems that are themselves derailed. The model-like mimesis of structural conditions creates space for deconstruction, ironic transformation, and other forms of distorted reflections of the real.

Despite common references of the works to public space, the approaches of the individual positions are different in terms of content and form. The juxtaposition of this variety of artistic approaches can thereby be read as an involuntary reproduction of a multitude of social bubbles of perception. The exhibition Buffers thus takes place in a field of tension between the individual imaginative spaces of the works themselves on the one hand and – in their totality – as a reflection on the dissection of different conceptions of reality.