TINY DOMINGOS
BREATHTURN
in participation with B-LA Connect and Rosalux
July 9 to July 23, 2022
Opening reception: Saturday, July 9 from 7-10pm
BEYOND THE MIRABEAU BRIDGE, videostill, 2021
One of the many effects of the COVID-19 pandemic was to contribute to an awareness of the importance of respiratory activity and its impact on personal and social well-being. Berlin-based artist Tiny Domingos' first solo exhibition in the United States takes its title from a collection of poems published in 1967 that evoke both breathing and a reversal of situation: BREATHTURN (ATEMWENDE in its original version). Its author is Paul Celan, a poet who, refusing all labels and taking unexpected paths, succeeded in a challenge that many (like Adorno) considered impossible: to revive the poetic language shattered by the Holocaust. Today, as the War in Ukraine plunges us back into a time-space that seemed to be over, another challenge - equally impossible in appearance and not unrelated to this conflict - arises before us: to face the brutal collapse to which the climate crisis, soil deterioration and mass extinction are leading. The very conditions of habitability of the planet are at stake. Once again, it is a matter of life and death.
Inscribed in a post-humanist and cosmopoetic approach aiming at planetary health and the overcoming of the nature - culture divide, the exhibition takes the form of a hybrid installation in which video works and artificial intelligence joins the tangible and the lithic to open up new perspectives of futurity. Betting on the great potential of poetic thought in terms of remediation, worldbuilding and imagination, Domingos proposes to wander through unknown landscapes where vast dimensions of time and space coexist from a quantum perspective and to immerse oneself in bordering zones in which water, soil and their mineral memory, mix according to the flows and serve as a setting for surprising exchanges, emergences and metamorphoses.
ABOUT B-LA CONNECT
B-LA CONNECT is an initiative to promote the cooperation and interlinking between the two sister cities’ creative communities.
In June 2019, twenty art spaces from Los Angeles exhibited in 22 art spaces from Berlin. The interdisciplinary program included art exhibitions, film screenings, performances, talks, and more. This July, 2022, the Berlin art spaces travel to LA for a return visit with staggered openings throughout the city in 22 different art spaces, a film night at the Goethe-Institut LA, and a performance evening on the rooftop of The Bendix Building.
B-LA CONNECT sees itself as an international cultural exchange on a grass roots level. It brings together members of different art spheres and scenes from both cities. New opportunities for interacting and connecting with each other are created and extended locally inside and transnationally between the two cities. In the sense of a positive globality B–LA CONNECT seeks to advance the cultural partnership between Berlin and Los Angeles.
B-LA CONNECT wants to celebrate urban diversity, show presence and stand against reactionary forces. Berlin and Los Angeles share the urban self-image of being the world in small, a place of cultural diversity and individual freedom. In light of the rising authoritarian and regressive currents worldwide the two cities stand for a liberal and cosmopolitan openness towards the world.
ABOUT ROSALUX
ROSALUX is a project space with a strong interdisciplinary and international orientation that has been firmly rooted in Berlin for more than 15 years. It is named after Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz, an interface between 2 creative districts of Berlin.
Art knows no borders: ROSALUX regularly presents works by German and/or Berlin-based artists in combination with international positions.
ROSALUX believes in:
– the inter- and transdisciplinary dialogue
– the transformative potential of art and posthumanism
– the artist-led approach to contemporary art and the artist/curator as an inspiring emancipating force
– artistic diplomacy to promote solidarity, international circulation, cooperation and encounter.
ROSALUX is committed to the empowerment of the artistic base and promotes self-determined artistic ways of working and project ideas, networking and cooperation with other artistic initiatives and independent project spaces on a local and international level.
With the kind support of Neustart Kultur and Stiftung Kunstfonds
