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Pole Bending

basis Frankfurt

Nov 01, 2024 — Nov 10, 2024

placeGutleutstraße 8-12, 60329 Frankfurt am Main, Germany

basis Frankfurt•Nov 01, 2024 — Nov 10, 2024

placeGutleutstraße 8-12, 60329 Frankfurt am Main, Germany

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Tarika Johar

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Pole Bending Romina Abate and Anna Holzhauer in basis project space Frankfurt

In Romina Abate and Anna Holzhauer’s first collaborative exhibition “Pole Bending,” a sensibility for our present condition emerges. Holzhauer fragments and slices apart a once connected “Ständer” (2024), translating as “stand”, and reminiscent of a leaning bar for bicycles, a railing, or a balustrade. Yellow varnish evenly meets warm wood. Comfort. Yet the interlocking structure is no longer a self-evident, everyday object. It is no longer a supportive architecture in public space that can be grabbed or used as a backrest. Split apart, “Ständer” lies on the ground. Visitors step over its pieces.

Demographic numbers, anti-democratic forces, economic balances, a polarized society, and comparisons to the decline of the “West” akin to the Roman Empire: presently, it feels as if the stable and familiar are increasingly fragile. Holzhauer’s series “Ständer” might be a sculptural...More expand_more