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| Birgit
Szepanski, Prinzenallee.a Play without Dialog, Photograph,
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In
her installations, the Berlin artist Birgit Szepanski composes an
aesthetic form of urban space using word and image, in which the walls,
floor, windows and doors of the exhibition space become part of the
art work. Taking regular walks through urban localities is a major
part of the artist's production process, during which she collects
thoughts, words and images of the city for her exhibition projects
in Germany and abroad. There is a correlation between the architectural
and bibliophile aspects in her artist's books, photographs, films
and audio pieces.
As
part of the exhibition series "Art and Text" Birgit Szepanski
will present a site specific work for Art Laboratory Berlin. Prinzenallee.
A Play without Dialog is an installation encompassing both exhibition
rooms, and relating to the street outside the art space in Berlin-Wedding.
Film, photography and text envisage traces of this street. In an
explicitly minimalist manner the street unfolds into the exhibition
space. In her texts Birgit Szepanski consciously lets different
literary genres intermingle: Description and narration, transcripts
and monologues transform the play into an urban labyrinth, where
fiction and reality seem to oscillate. The exhibition space becomes
a crime site and the visitor a voyeur, who enters intimate urban
zones through image, sound and text.
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