45cbm: Zora Mann

Doppelgänger

10.05.–16.07.2017
Water falls in a darkened room with illuminated images on the walls.
A dark room with vertical waterfalls illuminating silhouettes of hands on the wall.
A dimly lit room with illuminated leaf shapes on the walls and a doorway.
A dimly lit hallway with silhouettes projected on a wall of strings.
An individual walks through a corridor with light-filtering metal slats.
A silhouette of a person peeking through curtained window blinds.
A surfboard with colorful stripes leans against a dark patterned wall.
Digital art features illuminated geometric designs on dark textured walls.
A narrow, dark corridor with a mosaic on the right wall, and multi-colored patterns on the left.
A brightly colored surfboard suspended against a dark, cryptic wall projection.
A dark room with a beaded curtain and colorful geometric wall art.
A blurred human face appears in vertical slits of a door.
Two colorful surfboards standing vertically on a black wall.

Artist

  • Zora Mann

Curator

  • Imke Kannegießer

The work of Zora Mann (*1979, lives and works in Berlin) addresses questions of origin and identity, examining different facets of culture by asking: What could culture be and how does it communicate? Her often colorful works appear culturally coded with folkloric symbolism, yet the ornaments predominantly arise from her imagination, childhood memories and dreams, influenced by elements of tribal art, science-fiction and pop; thus overcoming any clear pattern or reading.

The exhibition Doppelgänger brings together three works that lead the viewer along the border between perception and recognition, where the self and the other fall into one another, or where the object of attention can equally become the subject. And vice versa.