Marthe Krüger is the chair of the panel »Drawing between Text and Image II« on Friday, 7 June 2024, 9:00 am–12.30 pm.
Since everything can potentially be art, can its development be understood as progress? Why is one piece of matter upgraded to ›art‹ and the other remains banal? With the concept of Verwaberung, I try to understand this dichotomy, its reasons and its meaning by developing a theory of the evolvement mode of visual art. My artistic work focusses on the aesthetic and narrative potential of images, spaces and objects in their cultural fragmentation and historical development. The image-object lies outside the reach of theoretical reflection and opposes the subject in its self-will. It occurs in the sphere of the post-sacral, namely the sphere of art. There it produces an unbridled virtuality as an infinite, excessive continuation of the world, which shows something other than the seamless continuation of a ›this-world‹-reality. And yet it cannot help but to repeat and transform what is already there. I develop my theory based on my practical knowledge and in turn reflect my practical approach theoretically. By doing so, I am particularly interested in those points where theory and practice can no longer be clearly distinguished.
