Spaced #2, 2016

Installation, Oil shale on Japanse paper webs

Oil shale rock on Japanese paper (40 cm wide, length 300 cm), canvas with oil shale pigment, 200 x 240 cm, 15 paper webs.
In the exhibition Nothing special, Gallery in Gustav-Siegle-Haus, Stuttgart (February 5 to March 30, 2016).

… Stuttgart-based artist Barbara Karsch-Chaieb’s archaic-looking works predate the evolutionary appearance of humans in earth history. Earth and rock pigments on Japanese paper and canvas, rubbed or scattered, bear witness to a time in which man as a developmental possibility was perhaps created, but not yet visible. The metamorphoses that evolution has taken can literally be read in the up to three-meter-long, vertically suspended webs in the stratifications, as if in an archive of memories. Like a researcher, she explores the materials used as stories, dissects passages freely, undertakes artistic analyses, establishes material connections, and opens up perspectives both into the past and into the future…. Excerpt from a text on spaced #3 by Dr. Stefan Graupner (philosophy and art history).

Photo cedits Lutz Sternstein (Photo slider)