Megan Francis Sullivan (born 1975 in Stamford, Connecticut; lives and works in Berlin) offers with the query of what artwork is and the way its kinds convey which means, exploring each the auratic structure of particular person works and the relationships they enter into on completely different ranges: temporal and spatial, literal and referential, financial and ecological. These questions of relation are underlined by shifts in manufacturing methods and thru the combos of works, creating tensions between authentic and duplicate, scenario and reference, concrete object and summary thought. Objects and relationships entwine to create an exhibition state of affairs that doesn’t serve to exemplify predetermined ideas and genre-based classifica­ tions, however somewhat opens up the house between such definitions. The context itself turns into the fabric and on this motion reveals itself in each its stabilizing and fragile impact.

For “Wolkenstudie” (Cloud Examine), Sullivan has developed works that incorporate native content material, akin to historic drawings from the textile business or panorama work by Johann Gottfried Steffan from the gathering of the Glarner Kunstverein. The present additionally contains new research of Hans Haacke’s Condensation Wall (1963–64/2014) and Adolph Menzel’s Wolkenstudie (1851), as effectively a mannequin of the facade of the Nineteen Nineties New York gallery American Advantageous Arts, Co. By processing numerous technological and cultural moments as an operational research in itself, an intermediate zone arises during which the assembly of those works gives shifting ontological impressions of every.

at Kunsthaus Glarus
till June 30, 2024