During their stay at GlogauAIR, the artists have been focusing on materializing exciting projects which will for the first time be shown to the public. The artistic duo Clark Beaumont is performativity exploring the balance between subjectiveness and interpersonal relationships, while Carlos Franco focus on allegorizing current issues impacting our daily lives and Britni Franklin highlights the tie between colonialism and contemporary capitalism by means of photographic digital collage. In the studios next to theirs, by means of technological self-build devices, Pratheek Irvathur tries to dissect the elusive threads of Thought and Jignesh Panchal exposes distortions and consequential shifts of meanings in the so-called Truth, therefore revealing its unseen non-linear multiple layered structure. Still chasing after revealing a hidden dimension, Mireille Ripoll summons the viewer’s unconscious with her engraved cupper plates. The beauty of natural forms and colors is highlighted in Alexandre Félix and Maximilien Pyée’s hedonist photographic compositions, while the duo Sam Hatfield & Fiona Skelton rely on the mechanics of absurdist humor to create their video pieces. Finally, the deep bond intimately tightening Time and Space is seen in Natalia Urnia’s conceptual work with textiles and in Ben Reilly’s sculptures which intersect Germany’s past with its way of being recalled in the present, while Jun Zhang presents his bold project of radically deconstructing the common notion of Space itself.

Having been since the founding years committed to contributing to fuel Berlin’s vibrant artistic scene, GlogauAIR allows fresh international voices to feed from this stimulating environment while they simultaneously freely test and expand their artistic practice. The results of previous months’ personal and professional experiences will then all come together on Open Studios December 2016, happening on the 9^th and 10^th of the same month.

To support and offer the opportunity of expressing locally based artists and curators’ inventive voices, Life, the 10^th edition, of Pop Kino festival is this month’s invited Project Space guest exhibition with “SELF(fish)”.

SELF(fish) is the symbiotic outcome of the three art pieces created by Sara Ferrer, Irene Cruz and Matthieu Ranc. This kind of oniric exploration invites us to do a reflection on the unconscious state of the society. During the sleep, humans go through an unconscious phase, which leads to a state of absolute vulnerability, when everything around us fades into the background. In this stage, we are not even able to react to external stimulus. In this ingenious installation, a symbiotic complementarity can be seen between the three disciplines. Sara Ferrer express this idea through the allusion to fishes, with the intention of returning to the origin of species, to that period when all animals were aquatic organisms. Irene Cruz wants to take us through video art to a non-palpable lyrical world tinted in a bluish, dim and transcendental light, aiming to reconnect us with nature and therefore our origins. Last but not least, Matthieu Ranc will guide us to a moment of trance with his live music performance by using synthetic sounds and creating loops, destroying with this all organic basis.