YOU MAKE ME VERY HUNGRY / UND ICH HAB SCHON WIEDER HUNGER

LISA HOLZER

14 Sep–28 Oct 18

Opening: 13 Sep 18

“Photographs of food that was loosely hand-moulded (in an infantile way?). Vanilla and strawberry ice cream, rice pudding with more or less cinnamon (Gautama Buddha’s final meal before his enlightenment was a large bowl of rice pudding), richly-tossed butterhead lettuce in pale sepia colours, somehow heaped into figures. To this, add one picture of slightly droopy chrysanthemums, from which the colour green –calming– is filtered out. The photographs are accompanied by text posters. Green is avoided (negated?) or altered digitally. Green is calming, or at least said to be. Now and then, the rice pudding blushes.
Rice and ice cream and butterhead (for the adults?). I bring the flowers.
The funny in the figure of the mother.
Side dishes and desserts – no main course; no middle. And death or flowers of death, devoid of green.
Bodies are absent. I am not there. I am hungry for your absence. Photography is passive-aggressive, as you might perceive.
It is interesting what comes out of pictures. I like time loops. As a rather loving, motherly, performative gesture, I will reproduce the moulded vanilla ice cream from the pictures at the opening, for the public’s pleasure.”
– Lisa Holzer, Berlin and Sikås, summer 2018

TEXTS
Lisa Holzer You make me very hungry

Lisa Holzer The fun in the figure of the mother

Sylvia Sadzinski About the show

ACCOMPANYING PROGRAMM
as part of the Communal Galleries Berlin Art Week 2018

Opening
13 Sep 18, 7pm
with a performance by Lisa Holzer

Evening of Performances
16 Sep 18, 5pm
Quintessa Matranga SMOKERS
Michele di Menna THE BELLS PUT OUT THEIR TONGUES
Trevor Lee Larson MY EX-BRAIN
Lisa Holzer YOU MAKE ME VERY HUNGRY / UND ICH HAB SCHON WIEDER HUNGER

Finissage
28 Oct 18, 5pm

PRESS
Contemporary Art Daily 24 Oct 18

ARTnews 25 Oct 18