All the stars will sail out for them

Inkjet print on Aludibond, Color, 32 cm x 48 cm x 3 mm
Hanging profile + spacer

2024

A concrete architecture and a hand holding a bird. The edition “All the stars will sail out for them” refers to the film “Into the Magnetic Fields” (2024) by Sandra Schäfer and to her work “what is nature to your culture?”, which was on display on the billboard on Lenbachplatz in Munich from May to July 2024.

The edition brings the two sides of the billboard together and at the same time reflects Schäfer’s working method with montages, as can be seen in the film “Into the Magnetic Fields”.

The work on the billboard focuses on the dualism between nature and culture, which leads to nature being seen as the hierarchically lower other to human culture and civilization and calls for its taming. The titular question is a variation on Barbara Kruger’s 1983 phrase “we won’t play nature to your culture”, which criticizes the equation of women and nature. While Kruger rejects this connection, Schäfer shifts the focus to the supposed separation between nature and culture. On the other side of the billboard, Schäfer quoted from Joanna Klink’s poem “Half Omen Half Hope”. In this poem, Klink reflects on different phases of love and its end, using images of nature such as light, rain and wind to depict the happy moments that remain in memory even after a relationship has ended.

The edition zooms into the two sides of the billboard, mounts the sections side by side with a clear cut and focuses on the ambivalence of hope and failure in the human relationship to his living environment.

The edition is available at Kunstraum München.

Photographs: Thomas Splett

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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