Sophie
Nys

Thomas
Locher

Pfropfen

24 Sep — 22 Oct 2022

Put it in me so I shut up
lay it beside me so I talk


Write me letters I never read
blanks as headline
burying your words with the plants
– I invent my own language


How could we ever lie between these sheets?


Your mouth a grinder
words with highest intentions,
living things peacefully grazing
forced alive into the machine
turned alive into mush


Your hand catching my phrase
sticking it back into my head
making me describe the real thing
oh! – now there are two hands
ok let’s try again – be precise
shit! three hands! oh no! – four…


In beds made of paper
on pages made of skin
in a world were we only wanted truth
how could we ever lay between these sheets?


Catching and sorting
calling and counting
letters and numbers
seducing and taunting


Coital signs, put them in me
using all your hands

Sophie
Nys

Working with a variety of media and materials Sophie Nys (b.1974, Belgium) brings conceptual and minimalistic artistic strategies to their logical and formal limits, while maintaining their poetic eloquence as subjects derived from the everyday. Her art’s sparseness produces an ambiguous atmosphere, in which meaning emerges slowly but surely and opens up new spaces for reflection, narration and resistance.

Thomas
Locher

Thomas Locher (b.1956, Germany). Coming from the neo-conceptualism of the 1980s, continuing interest in language and its and its relationship to writing, locatable at the intersection of textuality and visuality. Continuous interest in the subject and its relation to the object. Occupation with the German constitution and aspects of human rights as well as their reality, their concepts, postulates and their historical-ideological ground. Examination of questions concerning the economic on the basis of topics such as exchange fetishism in the commodity object as well as concepts such as credit, credibility or work. Since 2017 Rector of the Academy of Visual Arts Leipzig.