Fleeting Moments?
14.04.2023 - 19.05.2023
The British writer Virginia Woolf once wrote: "Though we see the same world, we see it through different eyes." These words lead us into the complexity of our perception and our own ways of feeling; they remind us that what we see often corresponds only to a very personal point of view.
Often we are hardly aware of how much of ourselves is involved in capturing our environment. Especially in the big city rush, we normalize our usual surroundings and only see the mundanity of the board on which we move in everyday life.
In doing so, however, we disregard how we tailor it to our own perspective. On our daily journey through the city, we always take our past and accumulated experiences with us. Like an endless echo, our fears and joys, our worries and motivations reverberate; we create connections and project desires and insecurities onto our surroundings.
The reality, nonetheless, is that the perception of the environment not only varies from person to person, but can also change from moment to moment. The ‘Now’ quickly becomes the past, constantly reshaping urban spaces. However, in this dynamic, their unique stories are also perpetuated. But do we take the time to grasp them and let them affect us?
On view at Green Hill Gallery beginning April 14th, the exhibit ‚Fleeting moments?‘ invites you to embark on a journey of reflection and discovery, recognizing how our impressions and sensations influence the way we view the world. Three artists come together here not to provide answers but rather to serve as a stimulus to question our own perceptions more closely: How does our inner state affect our viewing of the outside world? Does what we see correspond to a general reality? How do we challenge ourselves to interact and be present with our surrounding spaces in order to understand their past and present? And do we allow ourselves to engage with their stories?
ARTISTS
Sebastian Köster
sebastiankoester.online
@sk__kunst
During Corona, I began to paint to free myself from
oppressive everyday life. Interpreting what I see differently
or simply giving free rein to the brush and the spatula, losing
time, and not knowing where the journey goes this time is
where I found my new happiness in 2021. In many of my
works, I capture moments in time and inhabit them to lose
myself in them later. In them are my personal memories,
which the viewers, in turn, look at with their own eyes,
perhaps to find their own story in it again.
Eozeen Lee
@aiauhsu
grandouu@gmail.com
When I try to fit myself into normality, I miss out on too many
important things in life. In doing so, I often realize how sick it
is to be normal. I always think about how grateful I am for all
these moments we call everyday life and how much I will miss
them. I capture many things that surround me and combine
them to create a space close to my wishes and heart. I draw
how precious those moments were in the past of this fleeting
moment.
Jan Lengert
janlengert.berlin
My habits include daily walks through Berlin, sometimes to the
city's outskirts, the tree-lined banks of the Havel, but mainly
through Friedrichshain, across Warschauer and Oberbaum
Bridge. This is the landscape in which I live. Always my inner
struggles and feelings of happiness or discord have accompanied
me. Some days the scenery seems to mirror my inner world;
often, the outside completely contrasts with my mood.
