October 06, 2021, 2 pm
Many thanks to the artist Jonas Wendelin introducing our participants to the concept & practice of the project space FRAGILE and guiding us through the exhibition More Atmosphere! by Britta Thie. The visit is part of the BAI Studio Program | Berlin Artist Residency, Art School, Arts Incubator, and Live Online Courses & Classes.
Exhibition Dates: October 02 – 31, 2021
Location: FRAGILE
Opening Hours: Saturday – Sunday, 12 Noon – 6 PM and by appointment
Address: Leipziger Straße 63, 10117 Berlin
“More Atmosphere! marks a return to Thie’s artistic origins as a painter. The exhibition takes its title from a phrase often used by film and television directors, who, seeking to create more evocative shots, call for ‘more atmosphere!’ – a demand usually met with the production of fog or smoke by technicians on the set. ‘Real’ conditions, thus, are conjured by artistic intervention. The means of atmospheric production are centre-stage in Thie’s new collection of works. While filming a television series in Budapest, Thie began to consider the objects that surrounded her while she waited for her scenes. Such objects provide the crucial – and crucially invisible – infrastructure of moving image production and popular entertainment. This paradox, ‘present absence’, became a fulcrum for larger questions the artist seeks to pose about the invisibilisation of forms of labour, the often deceptive power of narrative, and the ways in which minds and objects interact.” (Text excerpt by courtesy of FRAGILE)
More information on the FRAGILE Website.
