MOMENTA Biennale de l'image — Masquerades: Drawn to Metamorphosis

Curator : Ji-Yoon Han

Anette Rose

Enzyklopädie der Handhabungen: Braiding Gazes

From September 7 to October 21, 2023

Opening on September 8, 2023 at 5 pm

Since 2006, Anette Rose has been involved in an ambitious inventory project which unfolds as various configured video installations. Through sequences she calls “modules”, Rose observes the routine, eventless human labor that takes place within artisanal, manufacturing, and laboratory environments, drawing attention to how bodies and tools are interconnected. From one module to the next, Rose builds a unique archive of non-verbal skills that often involve instruction and practice (for both humans and machines), but are then automatically carried out, whether through programming or through reflex.

The exhibition Enzyklopädie der Handhabungen: Braiding Gazes brings together several modules around the activity of “weaving.” The videos were filmed in different contexts, including an artist residency at the RWTH Aachen Institute for Textile Technology and motion capture lab; at Eschke, a silk manufacturer in Crimmitschau, in Saxony; and at the Berlin Zoological Garden. The metamorphosis of the line and the motif are the common thread: the rhythmic movement of silk threads produces an arc from the most advanced technology invented by humans to that, immemorial, of the construction of the nest by the birds. Rose, in turn, weaves her work through the gallery space, inviting us to explore the continuum of techniques that, throughout the living world, transform materials into a second skin.

Exhibition presented by MOMENTA Biennale de l’image and produced in partnership with Dazibao.

Anette Rose's exhibition is made possible thanks to the support of the Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen.