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suturo.com is a new dynamic and interactive website that reacts uniquely to each visitor as they navigate the site, allowing for exploration that fosters new formal and conceptual perspectives between the art, the poems, and the viewers.

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Steven Wolkoff
Alexandra Wiesenfeld
Eugene Ahn

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Artists and Poems: Berlin 2021

And what is the zero that marks the place for the one-who-writes? A page like snow? White without seven dwarves? The invention of a bee see? elbowing elemen(t) toward o.p. cues? With increasing speed and frequency? The moment the Greeks added vowels to the alphabet so that we don't have to draw on anything outside the word to construe it?

Shapes not found in nature. To take us out of body.

But I long for it. The body. Even if blue veins run from the knees to the ankles and the feet are swollen and bulge out of the shoes. And how can I long for something that is right here? A bit scattered my brain, perhaps. Not yet the bones I've carried around all my life. And by my own strength.

So I embark. On writing. With a shout at the sea around me, the surface of language. The vessel’s not important, but the shout is. It brings the body. And with it the patterns I love, rhythmic, paratactic, the old oral forms, repetition, alliteration. And if I don't use formulae and proverbs I at least play among their echoes in the inner ear.

Words that sleep in the body all night and in the daytime come out and touch you like a warm hand.

Yet all the while I sharpen my pencil to a fine point. My alphaknife to dissect the world. And remember the phoneme, an abstract value like that of zero, which makes possible the existence of language.

Intricate lines, complex, across gaps and fissures. Toward the distance needed for full understanding. Where the void opens its one eye that never closes. In the middle of the mind. Not in the proportions of body. And I'm unsure, does it make me blind or seeing.

Swallows, missiles, helicopters, wounded bodies, budding leaves, the sun rising out of the sea, streets glistening with rain, tin cans, plastic bags, armchairs, playing cards, a prisoner on a leash, cigarette butts, colours shifting in the sky, rooftops, maples, humvees, tanks, fields of wildflowers and landmines in one big, blooming confusion.

Or the other side of language. Where I am mute and the unsaid weighs heavy. On the tip of the tongue. A foretaste of death.

Artwork
untitled 2021
six 12,25 x 15 cm
Mezzotint prints on Zerkall paper
Majla Zeneli @selected_unsettlements

Jarmuschek & Partner

Poem
INTERLUDE: CYCLOPS EYE
From "Driven to Abstraction"
2010
Rosmarie Waldrop

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Andreas Wolf, Aneh Ondare, Anke Völk, Ari-Pekka Leinonen, Bettina Weiß, Carlos Silva, Carola Rümper, Charlotte Bastian, Dan Allon, Dana Engfer, Daniel Wiesenfeld, Detlef Baltrock, Elisabeth Sonneck, Eva Schwab, Jürgen Kellig, Jasmine Justice, Jesse Farber, Julia Krewani, Katja Pudor, Kerstin Serz, Kuno Ebert, Majla Zeneli, Matthias Reinmuth, Meike Kuhnert, Michel Aniol, Miguel Rothschild, Mike MacKeldey, Nicole Wendel, Niina Lehtonen Braun, Oliver Möst, Ruth Wiesenfeld, Stephan Wang, Susanne Ring, Tanja Selzer, Ulrike Dornis, Vanessa Enriquez

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Curatorial statement

SUTURO is an online exhibition project that invites artists to relate their own work to a poem. The Suturo team from Los Angeles (Steven Wolkoff, Alexandra Wiesenfeld and Eugene Ahn) has invited Bettina Weiß and Daniel Wiesenfeld to organize and curate the exhibition Berlin 2021.

The invited artists place their work in relation to a text/poem that is of particular significance to them. They are completely free in their choice and approach, both thematically and formally. The poem can complement or contrast their process, be the starting, ending or in between point of the work. Whether the world political situation, the challenge of the pandemic, a purely formal combination of art and language, or a personal focus, anything goes.

This combination of art and poetry allows new insights into the motivation behind the work, and opens up interesting intellectual perspectives on the intersections between word-based and text-based art.

SUTURO ist ein Online Ausstellungsprojekt, welches Künstler:innen einlädt, eine eigene Arbeit in Bezug zu einem Gedicht zu setzen.

Das Suturo Team aus Los Angeles (Steven Wolkoff, Alexandra Wiesenfeld und Eugene Ahn) hat Bettina Weiß und Daniel Wiesenfeld eingeladen, Organisation und Kuration der Ausstellung Berlin 2021 zu übernehmen.

Die eingeladenen Künstler:innen stellen ihr Werk in Verbindung zu einem Text/Gedicht, das für sie von besonderer Bedeutung ist. Bei der Auswahl und Herangehensweise sind sie sowohl thematisch, als auch formal völlig frei. Das Gedicht kann ihre Arbeitsweise ergänzen oder kontrastieren, der Ausgangs-, Zwischen- oder Endpunkt der Arbeit sein. Ob die weltpolitische Lage, die Herausforderung der Pandemie, eine rein formale Kombination von Kunst und Sprache oder ein persönlicher Fokus, alles ist erlaubt.

Diese Verbindung von Kunst und Poesie ermöglicht neue Einblicke in die Motivation hinter dem Werk und eröffnet interessante intellektuelle Perspektiven auf die Überschneidungen zwischen wort- und textbasierter Kunst.