Context Collection / Lines
The Context Collection is a coat for tangible objects, single events, experience or a societal clash, which leaves its mark in the consciousness.
In 1435 Leon Battista Alberti wrote: “A point is a sign [signum] which one might say is not divisible into parts. (...) Points joined together continuously in a row constitute a line. (...) If many lines are joined closely together like threads in a cloth, they will create a surface”. (edited, AL)
Selected objects from the Context Collection are shown in the exhibition, a collection that like an amoeba or a rubber animal, grows in every possible direction, and has an ambiguous point of origin. Among the objects presented is a nearly forty year old plant cutting, KZ-3 apples originally bred by Korbinian Aigner (the apple pastor) at the Nazi concentration camp at Dachau, plastic from the shores of Surtsey island (the result of a 1963 submarine volcanic eruption), water from the crater created by the 2011 Grímsvötn subglacial eruption, diaries and spray-painted lines on moss.
These objects share an emotional point of contact, created by a multitude of surveys where the artist uses herself in a way similar to how surveyors of land use their tools, by collecting material from various locations, accumulated in the corner of one's mind, constructing a whole interpretation, a knowledge map of sorts.
In relation to the exhibition, the artist released an artist book with the same title.
