We are proud to welcome Irish artist Emma Haugh.
The artist will present a selection of works from BERGHAIN next Friday December the 7th and will run throughout December/January.
“Techno is architectural; its form is hard and structured. The relentless, persistent repetition of techno re-flects the urban environment… grids… blocks…divisions and unifications. Bodies are organised, amalgamated and divided through the sound and rhythm. Topless men lock themselves into a driving insistent formation, shoulders lead the rest of the body, feet drawing a geometric pattern on the two foot squared space claimed on the dancefloor. Torsos, shoulders, stomachs and arms are tense, falling into an endless bounce from one sharp beat to another. There is an unspoken code of behavior…anything is allowed as long as the rules are noted.”
‘Notes on Techno – Dec 2010’
“Working with constructed photographic images, sculpture, text, installation and theatrical devices there is a layering of performativity and documentation in my working process. Work to date incorporates a curiosity about the language of the body and primal drives in relation to the built urban environment. Altered states and contemporary rites of passage continue to inform visual investigations. Recent work references the aesthetics and mythology of club culture and is consciously undertaken and presented from a queer perspective.” – Emma Haugh Opening will start at 7pm and KOOL THING will be deejaying.
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OPENING // FLEUR HELLUIN “CYBER SPACE & GOLDEN AGE” // APRIL 26TH
AKA is proud to welcome french artist Fleur Helluin for her first solo exhibition in Berlin.
The exhibition, entitled ‘Cyberspace and Golden Age’, includes paintings and installation works. Evolving around a cybernetic mystical reality, the installation will be activated during the opening on the 26th of April with performers navigating in the glitter filled space. The installation acts as a symbolic deconstruction of the subject of the painting. Portraits, based on images coming from Internet, act as mirrors. Their subjects are facing us, but their stare goes back to the inside. This stare, inspired from the one typically seen in a Skype conversation, is the astonished or mechanical look one gives to its own image.
Fleur Helluin’s practice deals with painting in the Internet era. In her practice, she develops ways of portraying the impact of digital life on our image. Using a slow processed, multilayered medium, she depicts what is between the physical reality and the virtual avatar of her subjects. Painting becomes the privileged form where things are neither real nor unreal.
Fleur Helluin graduated in 2005 from the Caen Beaux-Arts in France under Joel Hubaut, and studied in Toronto under John Armstrong & Paul Collins.
Opening on friday the 26th of April at 7pm.
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