remove; apply; carry away, 2023

Drawing with earth

Drawing in space with earth and rock pigments in the Orangerie – space for plants, Kirchberg/Jagst.
Traces of places on the trees in the courtyard garden of the Orangerie.

Barbara Karsch-Chaïeb works with soil and rock material, a material that can appear in a variety of colors and grains. The Stuttgart artist detaches the soil and rock material from the temporal and spatial order of geological and pedogenic stratification and shifts it in new spatial and temporal contexts from the darkness of the underground into the light of perception. In the Orangerie, Barbara Karsch-Chaïeb unites sediments from Africa, Asia, Europe, and North and South America on the floor of the exhibition space to create an expansive overall image that allows the earth to be understood as a whole. In this creative phase, she is essentially guided by aesthetic considerations, whereby the colorful appearance of the earth material plays a decisive role. The visitors become part of the work. The earth is sticking to their shoes, it is carried around, redistributed, carried out. The work dissolves, traces remain. The works of Barbara Karsch-Chaïeb guide us to look at our being from a holistic point of view and raise questions that invite us to talk to each other.
Inge Krause, Claudia Thorban, Julia Kamann / Orangerie Kirchberg/Jagst.

Exhibition from September 17 to November 1th, 2023.
View into the Orangerie, 27 earth- and stone pigments, five from Kirchberg. Rights of the images VG-Bildkunst.