Valérie FavreR.A.W. or the sirens of Titan03.04. - 16.10.2022
Kunstmuseum Appenzell

Reality, artefact and truth combine in the artistic interventions to form a counter-design to the sad images of the present, as if it were being viewed and interpreted from Jupiter’s moon Titan. Each of the artists reflects and transforms the complexity of the world – and although art can certainly never repair the planet, let alone the human condition, it can, by virtue of the aesthetic imagination, set in motion that spiritual and emotional synthesis that gives meaning and sensuality to the experiences.

This ranges from Judith Albert’s cinematic mental journeys, Miriam Cahn’s defiant self-assertion, Valérie Favre’s cosmic-poetic ancestral tablets to the subtle synaesthesia set in motion by Asi Föcker. Agnès Geoffray’s monument to all past and coming (gender) wars testifies to a bodily awareness of history, as does Roswitha Gobbo’s concentration on the sense of hearing and the sense of self, or Martina Morger’s staging of the art site as a storehouse of cultural memories. Diana Michener’s desolate landscape dreams are just as intense as Birgit Widmer’s only seemingly gentle weave of words – all held together by Suzanne Treister, whose escape artist turns even the black holes into the breeding ground of future life.