Burn it Down

Part of the group show Home Sweet (?) Home, GlogauAir, Berlin, 2021.

“Home” is a concept that is loved, difficult, beaten, battered, used, and longed for. “Home” and the ideas that we associate with it mark most everything we do, questioning where we rest our head, where we create community, where we belong, and where we work at our best. Bureaucratic, emotional, sentimental, we feel “home” and questions of “home” pulsate in our identity and our work.

In this exhibition we invited five artists to reflect on the concept of home, cataloguing their impressions and ways of working. Their art is woven from private, public, and political influences which have multiplied, split, and taken on new forms. Installation, sculpture, collage, painting, and photography come together as a choir of ideas to explore what home is, and what it could look like.

Exhibition text. Curation: Hanna Bargheer, GlogauAir, 2021

Burn It Down belongs to the Familiar Spirits series.

Familiar Spirits brings together a set of imaginary artefacts, charms and talismans worked in real gold leaf and golden lacquer, dedicated to invoking or revoking the presence of familiar spirits. Gold is treated as the universal embodiment of the dominant paradigm: distorted, cracked, diverted from its function as a marker of prestige to carry a different symbolic economy.

Presented online on Artsy by BBA Gallery, Berlin, 2021.