Until This I Mean This
49 Forster Strasse, Berlin, DE
May 11—June 23, 2024
Until This I Mean This is a collection of works for exhibition. All works were produced in the two months preceding the opening of the exhibition space to the public on May 11 and were conceived as edges, figurines, doodles, games, traces of a journey of flight, or perhaps, of landing.
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Mea, Precious Angel: Provocations toward a Modularity of the Abyss serves as the companion text to Until This I Mean This. Drawing on the notion of the erotic articulated by Audre Lorde in her seminal 1978 speech Uses of the Erotic, the text explores the ‘limic’ as a further, undefining emergence of deep erotism. Limic logic is a type of attention to the lush, rampant space — the limit — flourishing between two whose individuation and identification are suspended, letting feeling take the full lead. In the narrative, identification and identity are understood in connection to their Latin origin, idem, meaning 'sameness', standing in contrast to the unbridled diversity of experience. The text weaves together a tapestry of references from academic writings to poetry and literature, eventually linking the 'logic of the limit' to the concept of the alcove — a notion that reverts objectification to the intimate, ( I )ndividual realm of daily life. Mea experiments with the form of the “pasquinata tragica”, a public and satirical mode of institutional critique original of early medieval Rome.
Mea, Precious Angel — 1. Erotic (.pdf, 2.3mb)
