2 - 31 August 2024 | Salon
The objects - here alienated in numerous variations, sizes and specifications - are humorously deconstructed in their actual function. As rigid tools of artistic production, the limitations imposed on their ability to paint open up possibilities and impossibilities for the production of images. The traces that the artist leaves on the walls through the premise of fixed storm hooks are open in their motivic meaning. Instead, Langhinrichs focuses on the attempt to emancipate her own artistic persona and gestures. In doing so, she reflects on the relationship between proximity and distance to the aesthetic product, as well as the question of who or what actually guides the artist's hand. Following postmodern concepts such as the death of the author proclaimed by Roland Barthes in 1968, she questions the control of her own aesthetic expression and declares humorous limitation to be the actual artistic moment.