The Way Home II, 2022
Site-specific installation;
2nd Version of The Way Home I (2008)
Solo exhibition at Club Solo, Breda
Website information Club Solo:
https://clubsolo.nl/agenda/winekegartz/
Photos: Peter Cox
Site-specific installation;
2nd Version of The Way Home I (2008)
Solo exhibition at Club Solo, Breda
Website information Club Solo:
https://clubsolo.nl/agenda/winekegartz/
Photos: Peter Cox
At Club Solo’s ground floor exhibition space, Gartz shows The Way Home II, a second version of the video installation The Way Home I , which she made for a former nuclear bunker ( Safe, Dalfsen 2008), and she reactivated.
The Ground Floor contrasts with the 2nd Floor of Club Solo, where Gartz made a light and colorful site-specific installation Mother Song, a rhythmic spatial collage including abstract fragments from the photo archive of Gartz' mother and father, especially from the time Gartz' mother Thea, together with The Women's Peace Movement - Vrouwen voor Vrede, protested against nuclear weapons, and fought for peace and equality.
Gartz' approach to the two spaces of Club Solo was, to make two contrasting spaces, with works which are complementary. Unlike the light and dynamic installation Mother Song at the upstairs gallery, the feeling at the Ground Floor exhibition room is dark and static, with a minimum of colour. The exhibition space has exactly the same plan, the same amount of windows and the same measurements as the upstairs space, but it is transformed into a dark, and disorienting place.
Two installations The Way Home II and Open Water II, are carefully placed inside and outside of a designed walled space. The wall has a particular color grey on the inside, and staged light. Thin wooden laths reach the ceiling and form an inverted triangle. The void between collages, wooden panels, projections and architecture is just as important as the elements themselves. The totality is both comforting and uncomfortable. It moves between contemplation and disturbance, coldness and proximity, life and death. The trance-like soundtrack, an electronic track by composer Barbara Morgenstern, occasionally disrupts through a chaotic part, containing fragments of a popsong by Muse, with drums, electric guitars and a haunting voice.
See for photos of Mother Song: https://www.winekegartz.com/works/Mother-Song
The Ground Floor contrasts with the 2nd Floor of Club Solo, where Gartz made a light and colorful site-specific installation Mother Song, a rhythmic spatial collage including abstract fragments from the photo archive of Gartz' mother and father, especially from the time Gartz' mother Thea, together with The Women's Peace Movement - Vrouwen voor Vrede, protested against nuclear weapons, and fought for peace and equality.
Gartz' approach to the two spaces of Club Solo was, to make two contrasting spaces, with works which are complementary. Unlike the light and dynamic installation Mother Song at the upstairs gallery, the feeling at the Ground Floor exhibition room is dark and static, with a minimum of colour. The exhibition space has exactly the same plan, the same amount of windows and the same measurements as the upstairs space, but it is transformed into a dark, and disorienting place.
Two installations The Way Home II and Open Water II, are carefully placed inside and outside of a designed walled space. The wall has a particular color grey on the inside, and staged light. Thin wooden laths reach the ceiling and form an inverted triangle. The void between collages, wooden panels, projections and architecture is just as important as the elements themselves. The totality is both comforting and uncomfortable. It moves between contemplation and disturbance, coldness and proximity, life and death. The trance-like soundtrack, an electronic track by composer Barbara Morgenstern, occasionally disrupts through a chaotic part, containing fragments of a popsong by Muse, with drums, electric guitars and a haunting voice.
See for photos of Mother Song: https://www.winekegartz.com/works/Mother-Song