For Ever and Forever When I Move

With Enya Burger and Teresa Linhard

Both graduates of the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf variously shift between fact and fiction, mythology and science. Their art allows us to recognize spaces in between—and both go back centuries to do so. Enya Burger, for example, uses large metal constructions reminiscent of a laboratory to examine both the growth of slime mold and the myth of its origin in the sixteenth century. In fact, slime mold is her primary artistic medium. It is an organism that forms complex networks and illustrates the interplay between natural and digital systems as well as concepts such as intelligence and adaptability. Teresa Linhard creates delicate textile documents that result from her intensive, almost archaeological studies of carpets from around the world. She examines the cultural and political messages in these carpets to foreground historical events. The embroideries also feature ideas and adaptations that have developed over generations and have had a lasting impact on our image of “foreign” countries.

Curator: Jessica Aydin