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White Wonder II

Installation
table, 11 glass containers, alcohol, cucumbers, 105 x 40 x 125 cm
8 etchings, drypoint engraving on handmade paper, 170 x 125 cm, each
Kunstpalast Düsseldorf
2018
Carmen Schaich
Carmen Schaich
Carmen Schaich
Carmen Schaich
Carmen Schaich
Carmen Schaich

„Is it a relief to subject oneself to this shaping and moulding of life, through one‘s eyes, mouth and nose, to take oneself into a world of deception, the homeopathic dilution of horror and desire? She did not eat the cucumbers, neither did she re-cultivate them, after successful examination they were only partially allowed to rejoin the cycle of life, of growth and decay. The remainder of these small cucumber fruits is now laid to rest in vitro, pickled, prepared for the anatomists of the future.“

Julia van Koolwijk, 2017 (excerpt, changed for the English translation)

“Carmen Schaich, born in Stuttgart (1987), now lives in Düsseldorf and completed her art studies at the Kunst Akademie Düsseldorf in July 2017. Her works reference the normatives of our culture and the proliferation of organic life. The combination of both results in symbiosis and contrast, adaptation and rejection. In the exhibition she shows a series of large-format engravings. These are concerned with the artificial preservation of life, the surrogates, which make the normative habitats of our culture organically habitable.”

Text by $narrator (changed for the English translation)

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