SOMEWHERE IT IS NIGHT

exhibition with Leon Michel, Laura Urbanski, Lindiwe Matshikiza at Galerie Ursula Walter, Dresden, September 27-October 17, 2024.

Now that we lie there, we could so easily forget how Earth spins. We lie down because Earth attracts us and we are tired. We sleep, while elsewhere it is day, night falls and the sun comes up. A narrative is taking place within me and deprives me from the time passing in my proximity. You ended up in the unreal concurrence of happenings, not knowing the direction it takes. When the temporality of narrative and narrated fall in the same interval a form of absence emerges. That memory of an imagination, the place you belong to, this continuous longing. It can not be a coincidence, but a script that repeats itself differently over and over again. As if this reality was a film - but it’s just a room with sand, this ceiling fan, scattered blankets and a voice that speaks of coordinates and doesn’t see the images moving.

Somewhere it is Night resembles a spatial situation that only unfolds in its duration. The space is occupied by the simultaneity of different temporalities, which are constantly superimposed anew in the juxtaposition of sound, film and installation. As in a film, time is manipulated and a strange sense of temporality emerges. Like entering a vague memory that is transformed into a dense substance of absence, simultaneity and synchronicity. The exhibition and the central video works were conceived together. All works were created especially for this context. The exhibition als included a sound installation by Laura Urbanski, another video installation by Leon Michel and a video work by Lindiwe Matshikiza.