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Steven Wolkoff
Alexandra Wiesenfeld
Eugene Ahn

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Artists and Poems: Berlin 2021

There is a heaviness to the sediments of grief,
when pain is a river that will not wash away.
Tell me, where is the brittle comfort in this well-lived hell?
When I’ve heard my sibling bones crack and
sensed their spine twisting back on itself ?

So I make my home in the slope of your artery,
to heal for a little while from my welcome death.
It comes to me in a ripple across skin
—that is laid bare and unravelled by a Janus wrens’ tempest—
oh how they beat their feathery drum!

It should not frighten me that there are two of me now
for neither is myself. They are who once was and who never might be.
From their shell I have knit together this misshapen child of mine
and coiled it in dread as all righteous mothers will do.
Yes, I’d better learn that disbelief is a potent drug too.

You know, a broken mind—barely woken—doesn’t know itself.
Nothing but a thoughtless bird with edges still soft in trusting bliss.
It basks in numbness until its warbling cry calls to the new day’s dark tendrils.
It probes the shadows, for perhaps... for perhaps today the crevices will be shallow.
Oh brother, you’d better keep your self pity tonight.

This I pray: take this thing from me. Cradle it in porcelain, bury it in clay.
Then burn me without a casket. And just one thought’s fire sets all that is gone free.
This heavy crust won’t stop the flow of life—passing is precious and once I was here.
This I know: I won’t be consumed. I‘ll be breath. I’ll run like water.
I’ll hold myself. And will be gone in quiet laughter.

						

					

				

	
	
				

				
				
Artwork

				Gemütsorgan nø. 01 

				ca. 9cm

				white clay, crackle glazed

				Aneh Ondare   @aneh.ondare

				

				
				
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				To quiet a tempered organ 2021

				
				
				Aneh Ondare  @aneh.ondare
				

				
				

				

				
				
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Artists and Poems: Berlin 2021

			
			
Artists

			
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
	
			
About Artists and Poems: Berlin 2021
		






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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.