Galerie Ladons, Hamburg. 7.10 - 5.11 /2022
“Schatz ich kann nicht, ich bin im Dienst” - “Honey I can't, I'm on duty”
Micro residency curated by Laura Mahnke
Tuth Fairy
Zanfee
With Lowri Whiskerd (Installation, print) Dienst shows the fourth of five artistic positions. Dienst is
a temporary low-budget institution taking place at Galerie LADØNS from October 7 to November
5, 2022. It combines a studio visible through the shop window with a bar scenario in the back
room and the exhibition series “Schatz ich kann nicht, ich bin im Dienst” - “Honey I can't, I'm on
duty”.
How to balance one’s own visibility and position with those of others?
How to interact with a room that already tells its own story?
In many families there is the story of the Tooth Fairy. She comes at night when everyone is asleep,
after a child's tooth has fallen out, and puts a little surprise under the pillow. In Lowri Whiskerd's
family they pronounce it differently and say Tuth Fairy.
When Lowri Whiskerd arrived at Dienst, she said "Let them hang!". She meant the steel ropes and
screws that had been left there by the previous artists. It was important to her to preserve their
traces and to include them in her own work, to react to them.
With direct interventions in the space, Lowri overlays the stories present. She experiments with
being sensitive to the circumstances, but also making her own narrative audible. Beads on the
screw heads installed by Zoé Ledoux and Thilda Craquelin and fish hooks on the maritime
historical wallpaper want to be seen up close and create expressive poetries of their own. In
addition, Lowri shows prints on wood and foam brought from London that enter into dialogue with
the site-specific works.
It takes confidence to let others have their space.
You can be soft and bold at the same time.
Lowri Whiskerd's works were complemented by the sound work on vinyl “Die Module spielen
verrückt" by Alexandra Tretter.
Zanfee
With Lowri Whiskerd (Installation, print) Dienst shows the fourth of five artistic positions. Dienst is
a temporary low-budget institution taking place at Galerie LADØNS from October 7 to November
5, 2022. It combines a studio visible through the shop window with a bar scenario in the back
room and the exhibition series “Schatz ich kann nicht, ich bin im Dienst” - “Honey I can't, I'm on
duty”.
How to balance one’s own visibility and position with those of others?
How to interact with a room that already tells its own story?
In many families there is the story of the Tooth Fairy. She comes at night when everyone is asleep,
after a child's tooth has fallen out, and puts a little surprise under the pillow. In Lowri Whiskerd's
family they pronounce it differently and say Tuth Fairy.
When Lowri Whiskerd arrived at Dienst, she said "Let them hang!". She meant the steel ropes and
screws that had been left there by the previous artists. It was important to her to preserve their
traces and to include them in her own work, to react to them.
With direct interventions in the space, Lowri overlays the stories present. She experiments with
being sensitive to the circumstances, but also making her own narrative audible. Beads on the
screw heads installed by Zoé Ledoux and Thilda Craquelin and fish hooks on the maritime
historical wallpaper want to be seen up close and create expressive poetries of their own. In
addition, Lowri shows prints on wood and foam brought from London that enter into dialogue with
the site-specific works.
It takes confidence to let others have their space.
You can be soft and bold at the same time.
Lowri Whiskerd's works were complemented by the sound work on vinyl “Die Module spielen
verrückt" by Alexandra Tretter.