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Game Heart Matter

Game Heart Matter


Untitled (the peculiarly bulky epigram)
16mm film on DVD, mirror and mirrored pedastal
2012

Jessica Silverman Gallery is pleased to present “Game Heart Matter,” an exhibition by Susanne M. Winterling, on view from February 8 – March 16, 2013.

“Game Heart Matter” is an installation consisting of a new video, sculptures and photographs.  The title evokes Winterling’s interest in materials and the way the camera disrupts the relationship between the hand and the work.

Untitled (the peculiarly bulky epigram) (2012) is a two-minute loop made on 16mm film and transferred to DVD. It depicts the mesmerizing movements of a woman’s impatient fingers as they tap on and are reflected in a mirrored table. Dramatically lit against a black background, the woman’s hand is distinguished by different colored nails. The sensual dynamic hands are reflected again by the work’s projection into a corner with a mirror. The original hand ends up being four, a community of fingers that converge but never touch.

The themes of this video are also explored in a series of unique photographs titled Untitled (a skin too thin) (2012). These works sidestep the intermediary of the camera by imprinting the words “a skin too thin” directly into photographic paper. The works are produced by exposing different amounts of light onto diverse brands of photo papers – some glossy, some matte.

“Game Heart Matter” also includes works that pay homage to cultural figures that Winterling admires. A new sculptural work, Odd blocks needed: jigsaw falling refers to San Francisco-based poet, Kay Ryan, whose work Winterling encountered on her first visit to San Francisco in 2008. Another work, Untitled (the deferred period, from now on, for M.A.), evokes the memory of Michael Asher, an artist known for works that made the invisible visible. The piece consists of photo paper draped from the ceiling and rolled along the gallery floor.

Finally, the show includes Untitled (because we care), a wooden replica of a Kodak photo paper box. While most amateur photos exist only as jpegs nowadays, there was a time when everyone’s casual snaps were printed on Kodak paper. Given this recent history, the wooden box feels like a coffin, a memento mori of a defunct medium.

Susanne M. Winterling (b. 1970) is an interdisciplinary artist who received her MFA from Meisterschulerin and is a former member of Hamburg collective Akademie Isotrop. She has held numerous gallery and museum solo exhibitions throughout the U.S. and Europe, most recently at GAK Gesellschaft für Aktuelle Kunst, Camera Austria and Fotogalleriet, Oslo. Winterling lives and works in Berlin.

 

No content (for Agamben)
C-Print, artist frame
12 1/2 x 18 inches
Edition: 3 + 2AP
2012
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Untitled (Skin too thin all into black)
Imprint of handwriting on photographic paper
14 1/2 x 18 1/2 inches
Unique
2012
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Untitled (die gestundete Zeit, von jetzt ab, fuer M.A.)
Untitled (the deferred period, from now on, for Michael Asher)

Unfixed Kodak photopaper
Dimension varies
2012
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Untitled (die gestundete Zeit, von jetzt ab, fuer M.A.)
Untitled (the deferred period, from now on, for Michael Asher)

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Untitled (das eigentuemlich sperrige Epigramm)
Untitled (the peculiarly bulky epigram)

16mm film on DVD, mirror and mirrored pedestal
Dimension varies
2012
Edition: 3 + 2AP
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mask of material (for ASCO)
Reproduced Mapplethorpe, pearl, feather
15 x 12 inches
2012
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odd blocks needed: jigsaw falling
Sculpture with pink insulation-material, black plexiglass and video loop on iPad
Dimension varies
2013
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Untitled (dem weissen Papier ein rotes Wort)
Untitled (for white paper a red word)

Kodak photopaper, silkscarf, and artist frame
28 1/2 x 22 1/2 inches
2012
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Untitled (Skin too thin, light to violet N.II)
Imprint of handwriting on photographic paper
19 x 15 inches
2012
Unique
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Untitled (Skin too thin, agfa skin lightened through time, embossed middle)
Imprint of handwriting on photographic paper
12 1/4 x 9 3/4 inches
2012
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Untitled (Skin too thin, agfa skin lightened through time, embossed side)
Imprint of handwriting on photographic paper
12 1/4 x 9 3/4 inches
2012
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Untitled (because we care)
Tulip wood customized with special labor
8 x 26 1/2 x 9 inches
2012
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Untitled (because we care)
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