Lisa Seebach & Julia Charlotte Richter   04.05. – 04.08.2024

Lisa Seebach & Julia Charlotte Richter. Aren’t you the one who can remember the future?

The multimedia space installation by Lisa Seebach (*1981, Cologne) and Julia Charlotte Richter (*1982, Gießen) consists of sculptures, film sequences and expansive drawings.

Video monitors are embedded between plateau-like, shiny steel elements, wall-mounted arrangements of rods, fragile framework constructions and futuristic machines. They display a group of teenagers whose members move about the installation like accomplices in a special forces mission. They follow seemingly fixed yet inexplicable patterns of activity: Objects are shifted, rolled, hung and passed on to other members. Seebach and Richter direct our attention to the developmental stage of adolescence, where the past rests in childhood but the future has yet to be written. The installation “Aren’t you the one who can remember the future?” examines the world that young people are growing into and how past generations have constructed it and left their mark on it. How can one transform inherent systems and structures into one’s own and make use of them?

Members of the New Perceptions youth curatorship are among those involved in the video recordings.

 

(Fig.: Lisa Seebach & Julia Charlotte Richter, Aren’t you the one who can remember the future?, 2024)

The exhibition is supported by: