Solo exhibition at
Klosterruine Berlin.
For the exhibition
God is an Asphyxiating Black Sauce, Hedva brings together works from over 10 years, written and spoken text, songs and performances, creating an exhibition that reveals matters of accessibility to be the very condition of any meaningful exploration of absence(s) and nothingness.
At the heart of the exhibition is the “Playlist to the Void,” which plays continuously in the altar section of the Klosterruine, one of the oldest buildings in Berlin, the ruins of a 13th-century Franciscan monastery. The Playlist is composed of songs from Hedva’s 2019 EP,
The Sun and the Moon; poems and essays read aloud from their new book,
Minerva the Miscarriage the Brain, out in September; and songs from their new LP,
Black Moon Lilith in Pisces in the 4th House, out in November. The musicians and artists William Fowler Collins, Gabie Strong and Pauline Lay, Geneva Skeen, and Anja Kanngieser were invited to contribute new and unreleased tracks. Different versions of the exhibition can be experienced remotely and on site, virtually and telepathically.
The installation continues Hedva’s search for the break up of the unholy unity of time and productivity, and creates a soundscape of noise, music, and language that prods and howls at the infinite. How does this absence feel, how does it sound, this black sauce that flows under, through, without, and in our everyday time? Does absence actually exist? Or is it not always interspersed with stories, memories, and ghosts?
Curated by
Christopher Weickenmeier. Poster images made by Johannes Beck. Custom website and livestream camera made by Universal Solvent Studios. Photo documentation by Juan Saez.
press—
Together in Nothingness, Heichi Magazine
The Artist Who Writes in their Sleep, Art in America
How to Give Birth to God, Fraulein Magazine
Gedanken in der Ruine, taz.de
