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Vernissage 24. August 2003 - 20 Uhr
„Borders“
by Ryan S. Lemke
Installation with barbed wire
24th August – 5th September 2003
Ryan S. Lemke has created an installation that engages with the architecture of the space.
The abstract logic of mathematics forms an important aspect of Lemke’s practice. In this installation he has used barbed wire to suspend a cube known as the “hyper cube”; a geometrical form that is based on a proportion of thirds. From the eight corners of the gallery space wires are attached and converge towards the centre such that, another cube that echoes the rooms dimensions is formed.
This shape would thus be suspended so that the cube of barbed wire "floats" in the gallery space. On entering the space the viewer will be confronted by this weightless barbed wire figure, but also soon realize they are within the geometry itself which is under great tension to achieve the form. The result is a self-referential structure that questions the physical and psychological expectations of boundaries. “I am interested in the physical and psychological message the piece conveys, the historical and social associations it conjures in the viewers mind and body, and the decisions they must take to deal with it”. Lemke will also be showing silkscreen posters and studies of the “Borders”.
Written by Paul Abbott and Nina Madden
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