ONES AND ZEROS
Sarah Lüdemann
Gallery PM
March 10- 20, 20016

Exhibition opening – March 10 at 7.30pm

“Such is the anti-oedipal strategy: if man is connected to the machines of the universe, if he is in tune with his desires, if he is “anchored”, “he ceases to worry about the fitness of things, about the behavior of his fellow-men, […]. If his roots are in the current of life […] [t]he life that’s in him will manifest itself in growth, and growth is an endless, eternal process. The process is everything.”

(Miller, Sexus)

Ones and zeros.

There lies my Bible. Zen is a peace offer. I draw one black line and then the other. A daily exercise, a manifesto a la Kierkegaard. Same, but never. A collection there lies, of stories, told in their own idiosyncratic orthography. Read me. I come at higher frequencies. Sharpen your receivers and build new decoders. Unravel cosmic structures in constant flux; complex, shivering networks of light bulbs, like fireflies. On and off, Fortuna Rapida.

I am the whole hive. Get your soldiers in order, queen bee! Understand the construction of your own nature. You are the governing goddess of justice; charged with some uncanny power. Rationality as mystic encounter. We could all be gods.

Persephone and Aphrodite. Death and Life. A coding, a game, your game. You are your own nightmare and your dream come true. Providence of sort. Essentially a cynic outlook, a Nietzschean spectacle of neuroscience monstrosity. Truly divine madness. Smash it all to pieces, to erect afresh. Choose your animal, but take them both. Go back through history and detach your human, re-install your cerveau bestial for its guidance into lust, longing and laughter. The map inscribed in your body. That, the true knowledge of the world. You are your universe – matter in motion.

God is dead, but the gods and goddesses are alive and pulsating within us. This exhibition is a first attempt at materializing a mad love for the fabrication of mystic stories and indulgence in the Alice-in-Wonderland syndrome, not in the sense of the medical condition, but rather as a state of childish acceptance of all that is encountered (bizarre as it may be) as given, neither good nor evil. It is meant as a prelude to the creation of increasingly more complex, surrealistic sceneries that assemble works of various different mediums, including experimental photography, obsessive drawing, durational performance, video projections, sculpture and writing as artifacts of evocative narratives. The title refers back to Leibniz and his binary arithmetic, which drew heavily on the I Ching (Book of Changes), the oldest of the Chinese classics, an influential divination manual.

Sarah Lüdemann

Artist Biography

Lüdemann’s work stands poised between seductive sensuality, and annihilating brutality. Her works move and play along the delicate planes of existence and desire – insofar as her works are both deeply emotional, as well as highly formal, and analytical. Lüdemann manifests her interior terrains as landscapes and installations. Seeking to turn the invisible into something tangible. Lüdemann is informed by the power of affect, Greek mythology, spirituality, pornography, sex and gender. She studied Fine Art, English, linguistics, psychology, philosophy and pedagogy at Cologne University and subsequently lived in Norway, Italy, England and Holland in order to learn four languages. These language forms evoked and provoked a series of alter-egos: aesthetically and psychically. In 2010 she was selected for an influential arts residency in Spain with Mona Hatoum and also received a scholarship to study a Masters Degree in Fine Art at Central Saint Martins, in London which she completed with high distinction in 2011. Lüdemann’s work has been exhibited widely and internationally at a.o. Printed Matter, New York / Goethe Institute Cairo, Egypt / Collegium Hungaricum & Momentum, Berlin / Hayaka Arti – Istanbul, Turkey / Trafo – Szczecin, Poland / LYON Biennale de la Danse – La lavoir public, Lyon, France / Tofiq House Sao Paulo, Brazil.

Katarina Kokkinos-Kennedy

The exhibition is financially supported by The Ministry of Culture of the Republic Croatia.

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Wednesday to Friday 11am – 7pm
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Mondays and holidays – closed

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