Exhibitions / Installations

Illicit Construction

Taubert Contemporary, Berlin, DE
2018

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The title of the exhibition already refers to the fragility of some of the exhibited objects, but especially to the central sculpture of the exhibition, an intricate structure with architectural references. Source material for this are commercial comics which Lieber deprived of their narrative elements by removing the image information and blackening the speech bubbles, which elevates the remaining material, the leftovers, to actual „building material“. The previously inconspicuous frames of the panels now become structural, constructive components that, when assembled continuously, generate a monumental architectural model. Through the perforated facade, another structure becomes visible inside, which is a smaller version of the outer one. Depending on how and from which perspective the visitor approaches the sculpture, his or her perception shifts between model and monument, with the inside and outside interweaving and forming a complex tapestry.