HENRIK OLESEN – DIGESTION
2022-08-08Does the same body cohere across different times or is it different bodies every time? Let’s imagine body building as a constructivist or poetic calling – ongoing, hysterical. Digestion requires special organs in order to absorb and break down the various things and experiences that life brings our way. Mentally and materially, every time. Somewhere between the heart and the genitals, a stomach is summoned, and connected to this a mental intestine. And a smiley face. Henrik Olesen seems to call forth a fresh body right here in the dead-end of a certain masculine modernity we may never be fully done with. Sculpture and painting are reactivated for diagrammatic purposes, meaning they don’t show bodies so much as elaborate the means of plugging in and connecting the desired parts in a given space and time. No figures here, only the opening of a sort of virtual construction site where another, actual body might already
be forming: “my organs” for whomever.
Opposite – Monument after Anthony Caro, 2022
Exhibition runs through to August 20th, 2022
Galerie Buchholz
Fasanenstraße 30
10719 Berlin
Germany
