If the spirited world is invisible and fugitive, the alternative is true for the world of objects and supplies: they’re seen, tangible, and understandable. However underneath specific circumstances, to specific folks, and at specific instances, one world could make its presence recognized in and to the opposite. The place the non secular and materials realms discover one another, the boundaries between the use and veneration of an object, between odd and altered states of thoughts, and between behavior and ritual turns into porous. “Calling” brings collectively artists with totally different backgrounds in music, theatre, efficiency, and visible arts to mirror upon our non secular and emotional attachment to the fabric world. It’s a proposal to ponder the exhibited works as websites of passage, and as contact zones—areas for speaking and connecting with immaterial matter, another person, a neighborhood, and ourselves.

“Calling” attends without delay to banal and acquainted issues, and to one thing way more unfathomable that transcends notions of linear time and house. Lots of the works exhibited have circulated past the confines of the white dice and achieved that means outdoors of it, and they’re every imbued with the actual vibrations of those dwelling environments: some hung in home areas or accompanied pedagogical workshops, others have been fixed presences on worldwide music levels and through performances, whereas others nonetheless have been created with a devotional and commemorative intention. As their perform and character as objects varies—shifting between relic, commemorative, diary, present, prop, stage set, devotional, or providing—totally different voices, narratives, and histories unfold and co-exist throughout the exhibition, each deeply private and communal. If “Calling” repeatedly returns to practices rooted in efficiency and music, it does so with the intention to mirror upon the profound performative and ritualistic that means of our materials setting, and to think about objects as intermediaries between the bodily and immaterial realms. Right here, the concept of resonance—or of reverberation—serves as a metaphor that emphasizes an understanding of presence that’s to be felt and intuited, with out ever arriving.

“Calling” presents historic loans by Moki Cherry and Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry for the primary time in Germany, bringing them into dialogue with new and current works by Lisa Alvarado, Lizzi Bougatsos, Beverly Buchanan, Michael Buthe, Melike Kara, Mark Leckey, Sarah Pucci, Stefan Tcherepnin, Paul Thek, and Gisèle Vienne.

Curated by
Kathrin Bentele

at Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen, Düsseldorf
till September 10, 2023