»If you stare at anything for long enough, you begin to see things that aren’t there.« Julie Otsuka, The Swimmers
The exhibition »Do with me is« an invitation to reflect on the fleeting, albeit repeated continuously, which is just out of reach. For her first solo exhibition in Germany, Swedish artist Emma Bernhard presents new paintings and sculptures. With degrees in sculpture and philosophy, the artist deliberates questions of being in her practice. The exhibition title alludes to the teacherly repetition of movement, as opposed to a simple »do as I do«. Instead of merely reproducing a gesture or sign, Bernhard effectuates the artworks in the exhibition in which brushstrokes and sculptural forms are guided by the body’s memory, a Deleuzian sensory-motivity, in an ongoing process. The artist made these works in reflection of the text »Difference and Repetition« by Gilles Deleuze.
Photos © Galerie Nordenhake