Giving something you don’t have to somebody who doesn’t want it, Max Grau

Giving something you don’t have to somebody who doesn’t want it

Mixed Media

105 x 150 cm each

since 2019

›GSYDHTSWDWI‹ is an ongoing series of Image-Objects (Bildobjekte). Gauze bandages are layered on wooden frames until a diffuse white surface emerges. Black and white images – photocopied on colored paper – are loosely inserted between the layers. Most of the images are taken from somewhere and show artists, writers and musicians. Wether you recognize them or not, is not important to me. I’m interested in the gestures, the expressions, the poses, the fragility. This series tries to formulate a fragmentary and very personal iconography of vulnerability.

Installation view: Max Grau & Eva Gentner, Atelier der Kunststiftung Ba-Wü 2019. Photo by Katrin Jaquet