SIGNALS
Issue #34
Hi friends,
In this edition, we’re sharing a glimpse of our current exhibition in Barcelona – a space shaped by water, absence, and the tension between what’s seen and what slips away.
Love,
Nastassja & Christian
SERIES
WAITING FOR THE BEAST
It might be summer, but our CPUs started sweating long before.
Are you also counting the days until the new beast arrives?
HELD IN TRANSITION
We’ve always been drawn to the fragmentary and the ambiguous – to what’s hidden, what flickers at the edge of perception. In our current work for LOAD in Barcelona, we’ve focused on the invisible just as much as the visible.
The figures that appear – female-presenting, partially seen – are caught in a state of transition. They reveal only traces of who they might be. Caught between presence and absence, between form and dissolution, they resist any fixed reading.
What interests us is not what’s clearly shown, but what remains just out of reach.
Water, a recurring element in the exhibition, appears in the final piece. It acts as a boundary – both physical and symbolic – between viewer and figure. The body is submerged, blurred, fractured by the medium.
We layered the work with underwater sound recordings to reinforce that sense of distance – a presence that can be felt, but never fully grasped.
SELECTED
Tom Sachs’ chawans appeal to us for their chaotic, imperfect nature. They take the shape of traditional tea bowls, but feel more like small, deliberately off-kilter experiments – raw, playful, and quietly ironic.
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