Group exhibition:
„Fremd“, Heidelberger Forum für Kunst, 11.4.-18.5.2014

The city of Heidelberg with its historic town center evokes an image of old style and grandeur. This serves as a source of inspiration for the artist to create this grandeur again. In the exhibition space (Heidelberger Forum für Kunst) lays a white carpet (8 m x 1,80 m). The artist uses her body as a brush and paint step by step the carpet red. The whole body serves as a living paint brush. Thus she creates a carpet with her own physical strength as a symbol of grandeur. The red carpet is nowadays the best known symbol for very important people and in this way for a dominion. As well the red carpet has been understood in antiquity as a symbol of something special. A scene in the Agamemnon of Aischelos contains an early mention of a red carpet: Klytaimestra installs a red carpet for her husband Agamemnon, when he returned from Troy. He shouldn't touch the profan earth. The red carpet has a strong meaning in human history and now shall express the specificity in the exhibition concept „Fremd“. „Fremd“ means „Foreign“ in English. The performance „Not on earth“ refer to the concept of the exhibition by pointing out that the red carpet devide earth and heaven, implementing heaven on earth. This work is also inspirated by Yves Klein, who worked with the body of woman to paint on canvas. Mainly this work "Not on earth" is about the place and history. The body becomes a kind of mashine miming a paint brush rolling over the carpet to achieve a monochrome surface to serve the needs of a king to walk on the red carpet in the end.

12 buckets with red paint, wood, white carpet, light

40 minutes

Camera by Andreas Dammertz
Edited by branka Pavlovic