Invalidenstr. 50/51, 10557 Berlin, behind the “Hamburger Bahnhof”/ http://ressort-berlin.de/
/ LINKS / Johann König Berlin

June 10 to 29, 2010 / Opening: June 9, 6-9 p.m.

Enchanted features works that lure the viewer in with a teasing game, arousing irresistible fascination like the snare of a trap. They subvert the order of the reality they are a part of by mimicking, exceeding or inverting the appearance of the so-called real world. The artworks trap us within their restricted structures by imposing their own rules and their own logic. Through this trickery they lead the audience out of the universal system of meaning and value. This sudden break in reality creates the effect of enchantment.

We live today the promotion of good material nature — truer than true ; the process each artwork uses is the artifice of seduction — falser than false. They somehow gain an irony towards the true nature and reveal that “real” in-depth space is always potentially reversible.

We do not believe that the truth remains true once the veil has been lifted —Nietzsche in Nietzsche Contra Wagner

Aids-3d (Daniel Keller and Nik Kosmas)
Lorenzo Bernet and Till Forrer
Juliette Bonneviot
Peter Coffin
Harm van den Dorpel
Matias Faldbakken
Lara Favaretto
Yngve Holen
Alicja Kwade
Stephen Lichty (performance)
Darri Lorenzen
Rodney McMillian
Marlie Mul
Aude Pariset
Jon Rafman
Timur Si-Qin
Hayley Silverman
Maxwell Simmer
Damon Zucconi

curated by Juliette Bonneviot

flyer design by John Mccusker

Aids-3d, Logos, 2009 ; Aude Pariset, Parchment, 2008 ; Timur Si-Qin, Real Flow, 2010 ; Lorenzo Bernet, Till Forrer (in collaboration with Janosch Abel), Mood of our Peers 1-2 (Series), 2010

Harm Van den Dorpel, Normalization, 2009 ; Darri Lorenzen, Folds, circle on stage 1-7, 2009

Jon Rafman, Woods of Arcady, 2010 ; Hayley Silverman, 1st Movement, 2009 ; Damon Zucconi, Presents Itself as the Problem, 2008

Alicja Kwade, Andere Bedingung (Aggregatzustand 6), 2009 ; Yngve Holen, Half Asleep to the 2010 Hot One Thousand and One ; Lara Favaretto, Twistle, 2004

Maxwell Simmer, Venetian Plaster Sculptures, 2009 ; Juliette Bonneviot, Kline, 2010 ; Rodney McMillian, Untitled, 2004

Lara Favaretto, Twistle, 2004 ; Matias Faldbakken, Untitled (Ununderstanding), 2005

Stephen Lichty, Shape Of Thought, Group movement exercise, with Sungeun Kim, Matthew Lutz-Kinoy and Tallulah Holly Massey, 2010