Camera & post-production: Fabian Brennecke

Producer: Marietta Auras

In the exhibition Echtzeit (Real-Time), Felix Kiessling creates a space in which things do not make complete sense – a space that we do not understand, that exceeds our imagination. Only in loss of control, is there the possibility to access a more objective reality.

In the moment of dizziness, the apocalyptic excesses of urbanised consumerism reveal themselves. Capitalist rationalisation measures, assesses, calculates and controls the exploitation of nature and resources, ways of relating and sensory experiences. The artificial dichotomy between nature and culture, the supposed superiority of society over the forces of nature, time and space disintegrates in the moment of anarchic rapture. We recognise the random, unpredictable, loss, the insignificance of being in the world. Kiessling playfully experiments with human perception by connecting artefacts and relics of urbanised reality to the elemental powers of nature. The overall structure of the artist’s works questions the connectedness of elements and interrelationships in the world. In dimness, the hierarchies between object and viewer disappear; behind the deconstruction of the known, the connected elements of reality come to light.

Excerpt of text by Almut Poppinga (read the full version here)