Vertical Swamp Raw Material
The exhibition presents the spectator with a species of a reflexive and conceptual mirror field which exposes the personal consciousness structure and its placement in the collective sphere.
Anonymization of specific life materials by means of metaphysical coding systems has been at the core of Sasportas's work for years. In this exhibition, this language reaches a new sculptural pinnacle in that the seismograph lines and source information of the sound become sculptural etchings in the work body itself, like a life event irreversibly etched into consciousness, and as such – operating as a filter through which the individual experiences reality. One body of work deals in etchings and engravings in the material itself, while in another work – that of the vertical swamps – a foreign physical body penetrates the drawing space and is assimilated into it.
The two work groups are exhibited in combination with the The Magnetic Shaky Table video film. This is a video film which originated in nightly photographs of the magnetic table/model taken from the studio ceiling in the course of seven years. Sasportas's philosophical interest deals with a physical swamp located in north-west Germany; various materials were taken from there to the studio, where they were dried and altered, creating a conceptual still life which moved constantly for years, due to the magnets inserted by the artist.
Sasportas's occupation with the swamp is one of the better-known aspects of her work in the past decade. The swamp embodies an unprocessed part of nature, partly rejected, which has not undergone cultural integration; on the other hand, by its very distinctiveness, it constitutes an entrance gate to the metaphysical dimension and is highly valuable to the daily physical field. The movement of these two spaces – the physical and the metaphysical – belongs to the core of Sasportas's work topics, as manifest in her well-known films GHARDI – Local Voices, The Light Workers, Vortex of Separation and The Moon.
Eigen+art gallery, Berlin, Germany
