The Cave Light
The solo exhibition at the Leonhardi Museum of Contemporary Art in Dresden showed a significant sketching installation and sound.
A series of landscape paintings on an unusual scale were dispersed throughout the five floors of the museum. They presented nature in its original elementary layer – fragmented, disconnected, floating, lacking all physical weight. The drawings acted as a species of mental maps of the mind, mirroring both the personal and collective structure of consciousness.
The sketches comprised seismographic recordings based on original sound impressions. The sound recordings are original recordings made by the artist at her parents' home, conducted in the course of 16 years with special equipment, without their knowledge. These recordings became the foundation for the drawings themselves.
The exhibition explored the swamp and the forest as key metaphorical images, representing fundamental consciousness.
The museum’s upper floor featured The Monkeys, a video project in which monkeys at the Jerusalem Biblical Zoo were recorded over a period of three years. The video captures the initial encounter between the “German” monkeys and the sounds of the “Israeli” monkeys (recorded via microphones installed inside the cages), along with their reactions. This interaction forms a kind of tribal structure - deeply human in nature - reminiscent of a nuclear family, and reflects the artist’s own family structure.
The film explored the concept of voice and its disconnection from the physical body. The sounds made by the monkeys accompanied the viewer from the entrance of the exhibition all the way to the screening of the film on the upper floor.
Leonhardi Museum, Dresden, Germany
